Dr. Xu is a veteran technologist and senior executive with a passion for driving transformative innovation. He is a recognized leader and speaker in open innovation, corporate start-up partnership, and computer vision. He is currently the VP and Chief AI Technology Advisor at the US-Asia Innovation Gateway and a Partner at the Corporate Innovators Huddle Inc. He also serves as a Venture Advisor for entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate senior leaders on new technology ventures in the area of AI especially for healthcare, industry, and entertainment markets. Before June 2017, he was the GM and CTO of Siemens Technology to Business (TTB) at Berkeley, California, Siemens' first Open Innovation Center worldwide established in 1999. He led a team of venture technology directors to identify start-ups with disruptive technologies and innovative business models and build successful commercialization partnerships between these start-ups and Siemens' business units. Since 2009, he and his team have engaged with hundreds of startups and developed over 50 successful open innovation partnerships in the areas such as artificial intelligence, big data, AR/VR, 3D printing, advanced robotics, and new sensors. In 2016, he was elevated to an IEEE Fellow, awarded for his extraordinary research and commercial contributions to the AI field of?computer vision and medical imaging. ?He has authored over 80 scientific publications with over 18,000 citations and holds more than 20 international patents. He and his team contributed to over 10 new computer vision based products that resulted in more than $1B cumulative new revenue. He served on the Industrial Advisory Board of UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from 2009 to 2017. He is a board member of the Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium (BASIC). He is a Founding Co-Chair of Innovation Executive Forum in Silicon Valley since 2009 and an Academy Member of the Churchill Club.