Technology >> CEO Interviews >> November 15, 2004

JI ZHANG – EXAVIO INC

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 the

company and a picture of the things you are doing at the present time.

Dr. Zhang: Exavio is a startup company which was