Dr. Shih-Wei Liao

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University

Dr. Shih-Wei Liao spent 22 years in Silicon Valley, holding positions at Stanford University, Google, and Intel. At Intel he worked on Hyper-Threading technology, parallel computing, and optimizing compilers. He later applied machine learning to improve Google’s data-center utilization, and is the original author of the Android Compiler, Virtual Machine, and RenderScript Engine — work for which he received the Founders’ Award, Google’s highest internal honor. In 2013 he returned to Stanford to research blockchain and FinTech, and in 2015 he launched blockchain and FinTech courses at National Taiwan University to cultivate blockchain talent in Taiwan. His current research interests include financial technology (FinTech), blockchain, and machine learning.