Dr. Ihao Chen, President and CEO
Dr. Chen has over 18 years experience in EDA research, development, and management. Prior to founding Incentia, Dr. Chen was the co-founder and VP Engineering of ACEO Technologies, Inc. He also served as senior consultant to the CAD Lab at Sun Microsystems, held management positions in SynTest and Cadence, and worked as CAD researcher at Texas Instruments. Dr. Chen received his BSEE degree from National Taiwan University in 1981 and his M.S. and PhD degrees in 1985 and 1988, respectively, from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie-Mellon University. Dr. Chen is the author of 4 US patents and has several other US patents pending.

Dr. Kevin (Xuequn) Xiang, Chief Architect
Dr. Xiang has over 16 years experience in EDA research, development, and management. Prior to co-founding Incentia, he was a key architect and technical lead of synthesis, timing, and verification products at Cadence. He is one of the pioneer experts on logic synthesis and Boolean optimization. Dr. Xiang received his BSEE degree from Beijing Normal University in 1982 and his PhD degree in Computer Science from University of Illinois, Urbana in 1989. Dr. Xiang is the author of several US patents in timing synthesis and optimization.

Dr. Shing-Chong Chang, VP Engineering
Dr. Chang has over 18 years experience in EDA research, development, and management. He previously managed and developed several successful commercial Place & Route products. He was a key architect for the flagship Place & Route products at Avant! and Cooper and Chyan Technology. He also worked as research staff at IBM Watson Research Center. Dr. Chang received his BSEE degree from National Taiwan University in 1981 and his PhD degree in EE from the University of Maryland in 1988. Dr. Chang is the author of US patent featuring the "Path Relaxation Global Optimization" optimization techniques.

Dr. Yen-Chuen Arthur Wei, VP of Operation
Dr. Wei has over 16 years experience in EDA research, development, and management. Prior to joining Incentia, he held RD management position at Avant! He also worked as high-level manager at ACEO Technologies, Inc. and technical staff at Cadence. Dr. Wei received his BSEE degree from National Taiwan University in 1982 and his PhD degree in CS Department of University of California, San Diego in 1990.