Agora, Inc. Announces Appointment of Chief Technology Officer
September 07 2022 - 6:30AM
Agora, Inc. (NASDAQ: API) (“Agora”), a pioneer and leading platform
for real-time engagement APIs, today announced the appointment of
Mr. Sheng (Shawn) Zhong as its Chief Technology Officer, effective
immediately. Mr. Zhong has served as Agora’s Chief Scientist since
January 2018 and with his additional role as Chief Technology
Officer, Mr. Zhong will be responsible for managing Agora’s global
research and development organization and strengthening Agora’s
technology leadership. Before joining Agora, Mr. Zhong served as
the chief executive officer of Hisense Microchip Company and had
held several senior technical roles at Broadcom Inc. and LSI
Corporation.
“Since joining Agora as Chief Scientist more
than four years ago, Shawn has played a critical role in driving
our technology innovation and advancement. The breadth and depth of
Shawn’s expertise in our industry, coupled with his proven track
record in managing complex research and development projects, will
further strengthen our global leadership in providing best-in-class
real-time engagement APIs,” Mr. Tony Zhao, founder, chairman and
CEO of Agora, commented. “On behalf of our board and the management
team, we are delighted to have Shawn take on additional
responsibilities as our Chief Technology Officer.”
About Sheng (Shawn) Zhong
Mr. Zhong has served as our Chief Scientist
since January 2018. Mr. Zhong previously served as the chief
executive officer of Hisense Microchip Company from January 2015 to
December 2017, and as its chief technology officer from July 2012
to January 2015. Mr. Zhong was vice president of technology at
Huaya Microelectronics (which was acquired by Hisense) from August
2009 to July 2012, and before Huaya, Mr. Zhong had previously held
several technical roles at Broadcom Inc. from 1999 to 2009, where
he designed algorithms and architectures for many generations of
Broadcom chips for advanced video processing. Prior to Broadcom, he
was a senior design engineer at LSI Corporation from 1997 to 1999
where he was responsible for developing digital video processing
algorithms. Mr. Zhong holds more than 100 technology patents, of
which more than 60 technology patents are in the United States. He
was a key member of International Organization for Standardization
(ISO)’s MPEG/JVT team, INCITS and IEEE, and has published more than
30 papers in the field of video processing and computer vision. Mr.
Zhong received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and PhD in
applied mathematics from Peking University and was a post-doctorate
research associate at the University of Maryland, College Park from
1996 to 1997.
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and convert them into customers; Agora’s ability to retain existing
customers and expand their usage of Agora’s platform and products;
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enable new use cases, including through quality enhancements and
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About Agora
Agora’s mission is to make real-time engagement
ubiquitous, allowing everyone to interact with anyone, in any app,
anytime and anywhere. Agora’s cloud platform provides developers
simple, flexible and powerful application programming interfaces,
or APIs, to embed real-time video, voice and chat experiences into
their applications. Agora maintains dual headquarters in Shanghai,
China and Santa Clara, California.
For more information, please
visit: www.agora.io.
Investor Contact:
Fionna Chen
investor@agora.io
Media Contact:
Timothy Gray
press@agora.io
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