Dongyan Wang

Responsible for Tencent's overseas IT, for all countries outside of Greater China.

. Lead the customer success for Landing AI customers, especially large enterprises through the complex AI transformation journey. We take a cohesive approach to partner with customer CXOs, executives and working teams closely to define AI strategy, identify the right use cases with value, solidify AI products/project proposals & roadmap, assess organization readiness, work with cross-functional teams within customer organizations and Landing AI to successfully execute the complex, multiple year journey. . Defined the vision & strategy for Landing AI acceleration platform (LandingLens) to accelerate the AI value creation. Lead inventor of the Landing AI acceleration platform patent. . Lead the product vision and integrated design of Landing AI acceleration platform, proving to reduce AI project span by up to 67%, scale to thousands of models with minimal resources, speed up labeling up to 50%, and provide a mature methodology to significantly improve the success rate of deployment. . Our close loop AI platform includes digital defect/issue book, human performance measuring, smart labeling, training model zoo, flexible model deployment, model drift/change monitor, one button continuous learning, and end to end AI data/model/product management. This enables customers systematically and objectively build high quality AI datasets, create/deploy/monitor AI models, and empower non-AI users to manage/improve deployed AI solutions on an ongoing bases. . Incubated & lead Landing AI deep link AI data analytics solution, which combine the state of art data science, high performance graph database and our extensive experience in data analytics to offer unprecedented visibility into customer data. . Lead the solution delivery & customer success for AI analytics customers. We help our customers define analytics & data science strategy, solution architecture, roadmap, and deliver comprehensive solutions (ie customer 360, recommendation, demand forecasting).

• Established Silicon Valley AI + Blockchain research center and quickly built a top-notch team. • Lead global AI strategy and successfully developed & deployed AI Training Net, the 1st AI+Blockchain decentralized AI cloud platform in the world, with decentralized GPUs, storage & turnkey AI training software. • Successfully delivered one of the best Industry AI visual inspection accuracy across multiple industries such as steel, textile, wood, alloy etc.

Midea Group ranked 323 in Global Fortune 500 2017. • Led Midea's global AI team, including Emerging Technology Center in Silicon Valley & AI Research Institute in Shenzhen, China. Established Silicon Valley R&D center and team from scratch. • Led overall vision, strategy & execution of AI technology/business solutions for Midea AI products in Smart home, intelligent manufacturing, robotics, and applications (Smart New Retail, eCommerce, Customer Services etc.) • Led the new AI team and successfully delivered multiple AI products/applications in AI Platform, computer vision, speech, NLP, comprehension, industry AI, Health, and robotics, generating revenue from the 1st year. - Established Midea Brain as Midea’s global AI platform, a distributed petascale, high-density, heterogeneous deep learning platform, with almost 200 Nvidia GPUs and optimized software. - Defined vision, plan, architecture and roadmap for Midea's Smart New Retail and e-Commerce, with AI enabled new customer acquisition and customer service. Successful demo on Shanghai Appliance & Electronics World Expo (AWE) in March 2018 and rolling out to Midea retail stores & online e-commerce in 2018. - Delivered Midea's Smart Kitchen AI NLP Virtual Assistant, huge success showing in AWE 2017 & 2018. - Led AI cloud & embedded deep learning AI vision solutions for Midea Smart Oven, Rice Cooking Robot, and Air Conditioning product with face recognition. 1st year revenue exceeded 300 million RMB just in China. - Led to build & publish ChineseFoodNet Deep Learning image dataset with 160 Categories and 180K+ images. - Successfully designed and built deep learning and robotics based visual inspection AI system for intelligence manufacturing. Successfully deployed to factories for AI defect and missing accessory part detection. • Led Midea's strategic investment in US, successfully completed ~$30 million USD investments, including SoundHound, an AI Unicorn in the Silicon Valley.

Grand Intelligence was a specialized business and IT consulting company, focusing on state of art high tech strategies, down to earth solutions and world class organization design. • Managed and grew the company to over 100+ experts with extensive FORTUNE 500 experience. We not only hire the right people, but also develop them with our experience and expertise. • Successfully delivered strategies/solutions for large clients, in AI, machine learning, deep learning, BI, data science and big data areas. Our reputation was built on eyes on the star vision, and feet on the ground solutions. • Developed cutting edge deep learning/machine learning AI platform, algorithms and applications, which significantly improved over classic pattern recognition or analytics solutions. • Helped clients successfully identify the right application opportunity to use the best maturing AI technology and defined business and technical vision, strategy, long/short term roadmap.

NetApp was the world’s 2nd largest enterprise storage company, second to EMC. • Led NetApp's enterprise solutions & innovation organization, responsible for all cross functional IT solutions and software applications, including enterprise BI, big data, enterprise data warehouse, master data management, BI & data governance, cloud platforms, enterprise content management, portal, search, mobile apps, and integration with transaction systems like ERP and CRM (Salesforce.com & Siebel). • Led global team of 500+ resources in US, EMEA, APAC, and annual budget of $60+ million USD, for end to end software product delivery, infrastructure mgmt. & 24x7 operations. • Led the strategy and successful delivery of NetApp’s enterprise BI (eBI), an award winning integrated enterprise BI and big data solution. eBI quickly became the most critical platform for NetApp to grow the business faster and run the business better, managing analytics and modeling of booking, billing, backlog, revenue, sales/channel, professional services, customer support, manufacturing ops, supply chain, marketing and HR data. • Adopted various machine learning to model and predict business insights in storage efficiency, revenue prediction, customer segments analytics, similar customer has bought etc.. • Per NetApp, eBI enabled $450 million USD annual tech refresh, directly contributed to $70M booking uplift annually just in North America, helped close customer deals ranging $1M - $15M+. eBI solution is used by all internal business functions (Including Sales and finance close), as well as partners and customers. • IT leader of NetApp's Salesforce.com CRM roll out. IT leader of Sales, Marketing, Channels IT applications. • Defined pioneering vision & explosive growth of 50+ mobile applications. Enabled $3M annual productivity gains for NetApp. Our innovation was featured by Bloomberg, business week & San Francisco Chronicle.

• Lead and manage multiple large, complex, enterprise scale initiatives for Cisco's enterprise, Marketing, Sales, HR, Finance, Manufacturing & Engineering organizations through 7.5 years, including data analytics, business intelligence, data management, governance, web applications, SOA and integration, web services, security, architecture etc. • Successfully led team to design and deliver the overarching security framework for Cisco's Manufacturing platform, which includes 400+ online applications and receiving Terabytes of data every day from supply chain from year 2000. • Successfully led mutiple major data analytics, business intelligence and data warehouse efforts for Cisco, including Enterprise BI, Customer Intelligence, Finance BI, workforce & management intelligence, Cisco University BI, Manufacturing Supply Chain BI etc. • According to Cisco Announcement, Customer Intelligence solution I led has qualified adoption and documented business value add of $1B+ annually, and over $7 Billion from 2007-2013, through data analytics, data mining and value engineering. • Successfully led architecture and large enterprise application delivery for Cisco's Marketing IT, HR IT, Manufacturing and Engineering IT functions. • Successfully led enterprise architecture initiatives for Cisco's Business Intellgience, Identity Management, B2B, Web Services etc. • Manage multiple complicated global initiatives, build cross-functional relationship with other organizations/teams, provide leadership & directions, drive team to accomplish MBOs & apply new technology into Cisco’s Manufacturing Connection Online (MCO), which is the window of Cisco’s virtual manufacturing. Ensure that all applicable global business requirements areaddressed. Drive theater-based IT teams to plan and execute all aspects of implementation for global projects.

Responsible for Samsung's flag ship Home Wide Web Digital Smart home vision, software architecture, research and development.