Weidong Yang
CEO, founder, Kineviz Weidong Yang is the founder and CEO of Kineviz, a San Francisco based company with the mission of solving difficult big data problems with interactive visual analytics. He received his Ph. D in Physics and Master in Computer Science.
About this speaker
Prior to starting Kineviz, he worked as both product manager and researcher for advanced metrology tools in the Semiconductor industry, and conducted research on quantum dots as a postdoctoral fellow at UC, Berkeley. Weidong is also the founder and director of Kinetech Arts, a non-profit organization that bridges dance, science and interactive technologies. He has been credited with 11 US patents. He invented Diffraction-based Overlay technology, a breakthrough that improved the manufacturing precision of silicon wafers, and has enabled sub-10-nm semiconductor production.
Weidong is a seasoned public speaker, having delivered presentations at industry-specific conferences such as EUCrimaCon, SEMICON West, Graph Connect, and DataDay Texas, as well as multidisciplinary events like SXSW and LASER.