His prior experience includes working at LinkedIn, Microsoft Windows Phone, Microsoft Research, INRIA, Intel Research, and Broadcom. Over his years in industry, he has worked on nearly every layer of the technology stack, including hardware, firmware, operating systems, virtual machines, big data infrastructure, and mobile applications. In his video, Liu discusses FPGA use in industry — particularly how these reconfigurable hardware approaches offer efficient solutions in the context of highly parallel big data workloads, which are computationally intensive and power hungry. He also broaches the use of FPGAs as one of the building blocks in heterogeneous computing nodes. (For more details about Liu, visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaoshanliu.)