Technology >> CEO Interviews >> November 15, 2004
JI ZHANG is co-founder, Chairman and CTO of Exavio, Inc. Dr. Zhang
previously was the lead founder and CTO of V-Bits, a digital cable video
networking company that was acquired by Cisco Systems. With over 18
years of research and industry experience in digital networking and
video compression technologies, he was granted six patents with an
additional 15 patents pending. Prior to V-Bits, he held key engineering
positions at DiviCom, a leader in digital video networking, and was a
key contributor to its award-winning adaptive pre-filtering and dual-
pass encoding technology. Dr. Zhang also held faculty positions at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and University of Hawaii. He obtained
his BS from Tsinghua University in Beijing and PhD from Purdue
University. Profile
TWST: We would like to begin with a brief historical sketch of thecompany and a picture of the things you are doing at the present time.
Dr. Zhang: Exavio is a startup company which was