John Ju

Who is John Ju?

John is co-founder and vice president of systems at Ambarella Inc.

Ju

oversees company-wide software activities and manages the software and

system hardware teams in U.S. and Taiwan design centers to develop the

next generation of consumer digital video applications. Ju has more

than 15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. His

expertise in software and firmware development from algorithm to system

production has enabled him to champion technical challenges and to

mentor team members in the entire life cycle of chip design.

Prior

to co-founding Ambarella, Ju joined Afara Websystems as senior director

of software engineering. He built a 30-member software team, which

architected and delivered software for Afara's multi-core multi-thread

processor. Afara Websystems was acquired by Sun Microsystems in July

2002.

Before joining Afara, Ju held multiple senior

management positions at C-Cube Microsystems. He was the firmware

director of the Home Media division and supervised a team of 40+ people

to do audio/video codecs and system applications. Ju managed overall

software development for multiple generations of C-Cube video

processors, covering professional broadcasting to consumer DVD recorder

markets. During his time at C-Cube, Ju successfully led his team in

bringing many generations of C-Cube codec processors into customer

production.

Prior to C-Cube, John conducted his video

research at Sarnoff Research Lab. He received the Sarnoff Technical

Achievement award for pioneering in MPEG video algorithm development.

Ju

holds a bachelor’s degree from National Taiwan University and a

master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Princeton

University.