Bringing 20 years of academic and industrial experience in digital communications and networking, Dr. Shung is responsible for high-speed DSP circuits implementation, digital MAC/SoC development and IC integration in the SiBEAM engineering team. Prior to co-founding SiBEAM, he was a Director of Engineering at Broadcom working on highly integrated Gigabit Ethernet and 10-Gigabit Ethernet network switching products. He joined Allayer Communications and led the engineering effort that resulted in Broadcom acquisition in 2000. He was with the faculty of the Dept of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, from 1990 to 1997 where he conducted research on VLSI design for ATM switching and wireless baseband communications. From 1991 to 1994 he was the Chairman of the department, and in 1997, he was promoted to a full Professor. From 1994 to 1995, he took a sabbatical leave from NCTU to visit Qualcomm Inc. From 1988 to 1990, he was with IBM Almaden Research Center where he worked on IC designs for PRML read channels and pattern recognition. Dr. Shung received a NCTU Outstanding Teaching Award in 1994, and he was with the ISSCC program committee from 1999 to 2004, and a guest editor of IEEE Communications Magazine from 2003 to 2004. Dr. Shung received his BSEE from National Taiwan University, and MS and Ph.D. degree in EECS from University of California, Berkeley.