Weimin Liu's Day Jobs

If you happen to get to know me from my day job, or if I look familiar to you but you can't remember from where, it might have been at one or more of the following companies and schools -- the record is held by a good friend whose career path has crossed mine three times, so far!

Since June 1997, GlobeSpan (Nasdaq:GSPN) at Red Bank, New Jersey (the actual location is in a part of Middletown, known as Lincroft, but it's serviced by the Red Bank post office, hence the Red Bank address. Told you this was a frivolous page). Acquired by the investment group TPG from Lucent Technologies, GlobeSpan spun off from what was known as AT&T Paradyne (yeah, very confusing deal) and is the leading supplier of DSL (digital subscriber line, highspeed access and transmisson over copper phone lines) chip sets and technology to the world. Great place to work, especially when it was still small. GlobeSpan went public on June 23, 1999, then became GlobespanVirata, and is now part of Conexant, headquartered at Newport Beach, California. Check out U.S. Patent Numbers 6,310,896, 6,353,644, 6,421,377, and 6,584,160.

May 1996 to June 1997, Lucent Technologies (LU), a colossal spin-off from AT&T (T), in Middletown, New Jersey (that location off Laurel Avenue has since been expanded and become the headquarters for AT&T). Belonged to the Microelectronics Group business unit (previously known as AT&T Microelectronics, now Agere); involved with the R&D of modem chip sets, including K56flexÔ, one of the predecessors of the later standardized V.90.

October 1992 to April 1996, Hughes Network Systems, Germantown, Maryland, a unit of Hughes Electronics (GMH), which is a subsidiary of General Motors (GM). Worked on voice-band signal processing algorithms for wireless local loops. Check out U.S. Patent Number 5,570,454.

January 1988 to September 1992, The Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland. Did my Ph.D. dissertation on a cochlear model realized on analog silicon under the directions of Professors Andreas Andreou and Moise Goldstein at the Sensory Communications Lab in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I can't say enough about the educational experience at JHU.
1982-1987, The Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing, China. Did Master's thesis on speech recognition and worked on visual teaching aid to hearing-impaired children. I actually spent some time at a Beijing school for the deaf; very interesting and educating experience.
1978-1982, Beijing Institute of Technology. Studied electrical engineering and computer science. Not a bad way to finish off the teenage years.
1974-1978, Beijing HePingJie (Peace Street) No.1 Middle School (Chaoyang District). I'm not sure if I actually finished highschool, at least I don't have a highschool diploma in my possession (I kind of had to quit highschool to go to college), but shhhhh, don't tell anyone.
1968-1974, four (4) different elementary schools in Beijing and Hebei. First, Dad wanted me to start school early... well, a long and old story; you won't be interested.

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