Edward Cheng

Edward Cheng

Infobox Scientist
name = Assoc Prof Edward Cheng


image_size = 180px
birth_date = Birth date and age|1940|6|17|mf=y
birth_place = Hong Kong, China
nationality = American
field = Computer Science
work_institution = UC Berkeley
alma_mater = University of Hong Kong (Ph.D.)
University of Berkeley (M.Sc)
doctoral_advisor =
doctoral_students =
known_for = Process automation technology
Enterprise modelling and management
High performance OLTP systems
Distributive databases
prizes =

Associate Professor Edward Cheng is an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley, and is best known as the CEO of EGI OMM [http://www.egiomm.com/comp-exemang.jsp] , which is the parent company of social networking site MeetWe.

Early Career

Prior to founding EGI and OCT Research Laboratory, Edward spent 14 years in Silicon Valley holding various management and system architect positions in software R&D organizations. He last held the position of Director of the Collaborative Computing Lab at Oracle Corporation.

He has led R&D teams at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he filed 2 worldwide patents in workflow and OLTP. He was also the technical leader of a development group, which delivered a 2,000% performance improvement on HP SQL in the late eighties.

His research interests include process automation technology, enterprise modeling and management, high performance OLTP systems, journaling and recovery, and distributive databases. He has also served as an adjunct professor with several local universities.

References

External Links

* [http://www.egiomm.com/ EGI OMM]
* [http://www.meetwe.com/ MeetWe] Social networking product of EGI OMM


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