KNERON'S FOUNDER AND CEO
Albert Liu, Kneron’s founder and CEO. After
graduating from the Taiwan National Cheng Kung University, he got the
scholarships from Raytheon and the University of California to join the UC
Berkeley/UCLA/UCSD research programs, and then got his PhD in Electrical
Engineering from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Before
establishing Kneron in
San Diego in 2015, He has worked in R&D and
management positions in Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics R&D centre, MStar and
Wireless Information.
Albert has been invited to give lectures of
computer vision technology and artificial intelligence at the University of
California, as well as to be a technical reviewer for many internationally
renowned academic journals. In addition, Albert participated in leading
technology development in Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
(IARPA), Bell Labs, and NASA, and owned more than 30 international patents in
the areas of artificial intelligence, computer vision and image processing. He
has published more than 70 papers in major international journals.
THE KNERON STORY
Established in San Diego in
2015, Kneron is a leading provider of edge AI solutions. It is dedicated to the
design and development of integrated software and hardware edge AI solutions
for AIoT, smart home, smart surveillance, security, mobile devices, robotics,
and industrial control.
Kneron’s mission is to enable and empower edge AI to be everywhere. Kneron's
investors from the series A round of investments in November 2017 include Alibaba
Entrepreneurs Fund, CDIB, Himax
Technologies, Inc, Qualcomm, Thundersoft, Sequoia
Capital (and sub fund: CloudAtlas), and CYZONE.
In May, 2018, Kneron announced the completion of their series A1 financing led
by Horizons Ventures, a venture capital firm
founded by Ka-shing Li.
THE
KNERON PARTNERS
