Technology >> CEO Interviews >> November 5, 2004

JI ZHANG – EXAVIO INC

DR. JI ZHANG, co-founder, chairman and CTO of Exavio, Inc. Ji 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 6 patents with an additional 15 patents pending. Prior to V-Bits, Ji 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. Ji also held faculty positions at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and University of Hawaii. Ji Zhang obtained his BS from Tsinghua University in Beijing and PhD from Purdue University. Profile
TWST: We would like to begin, if you will, 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