Ramesh joined University of California, Irvine as the first Bren Professor in Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences in 2005. Ramesh has been an active researcher in experiential computing, multimedia information systems, machine vision, and intelligent systems. While professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of California, San Diego, he founded and directed artificial intelligence and visual computing labs. Ramesh has been elected Fellow of ACM, IEEE, AAAS, IAPR, AAAI, and SPIE. He is the recipient of several awards including the ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award 2010.

Ramesh co-founded multiple companies (Imageware, Virage, Praja, Seraja, mChron, and Krumbs), managed them in initial stages, and then turned them over to professional management. Currently, he is working with Krumbs — an Engagement Layer company. He enjoys working with companies, is involved in research, and enjoys writing. His current research is in Future Health, Social Life Networks, and Visual Web.

Dr Hau Liu is the Chief Medical Officer at Shanghai United Hospitals and Clinics. He received his medical degree from Columbia University in New York City. He also obtained a Master of Public Health and Master of Business Administration from the same institution, as well as a Master of Health Service Research from Stanford University in California. He received his Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies from Harvard University.
Dr. Hau completed his residency and fellowship at Stanford University Hospital. He is double board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology and Metabolism. Prior to joining Shanghai United Family Hospital and Clinics, he served as Senior Director at Castlight Health and Staff Endocrinologist in Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, both in California. He served as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine (Aff.) and as an Adjunct Associate at the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, both at Stanford University. He also worked previously at Kaiser-Permanente, the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, and as a management consultant at Booz Allen and Hamilton.

Hong is Director of New Ventures, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Asia Pacific Innovation Center. In this role, Hong is responsible for implementing the Asia Pacific Innovation Center’s strategy in Korea.

Previously, Hong spent thirteen years as a drug discovery scientist within the Discovery Science organization of Janssen R&D in North America. Hong has extensive knowledge in drug discovery in various therapeutic areas and their associated novel platform technologies, and understanding of consumer business. Hong has broad discovery experience in various therapeutic areas, such as oncology, CVM, neuroscience, pain, and immunology.

Hong received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biochemistry from New York University, her MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, and Leadership & Change Management from Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NYU.