After graduation, I started working in the Silicon Valley, initially as performance engineer for Fujitsu Microelectronics Inc. (FMI), moved to WWSLT, a more researchy side of FMI. Followed by Teralogic, an HDTV pioneer, and several other startups, including my own startups. In 2009 venture capital industry has become too engrossed with web 2.0 and everything else are ignored, partially due to Facebook & Google were buying startups with trivial technology at high valuation, and the herd mentality of VC industry kicked in. There was also financial meltdown during this time. I gave up Silicon Valley and started looking for academic position, and ended up hired to start a cybersecurity research program at the Office of Naval Research, after responding to an advertisement in IEEE Spectrum.
Being a little more scientific than most engineers, I developed many interesting stuffs in the Silicon Valley. One of my patent filed in 2008, Cognizant Engine, is the base for our current research MonT & Pokemon. Somehow, Cognizant Engine is still novel over all of these years.
My interview slides for ONR summarized my exploits in the Silicon Valley (some slides are removed due to ITAR) → slides k-ResearchPres-ONR-e