Dawn Tilbury and Feng Zhou to present keynotes at BCS 2020

EECS alumni Dawn Tilbury (EE PhD ’94, advisor: Shankar Sastry) and Feng Zhou (CS PhD ’07, advisor: Eric Brewer) have been selected to present keynote addresses at the Berkeley China Summit (BCS) 2020 conference, which will be held virtually on September 18-19th.  BCS is  a full-day conference that aims to connect China’s businesses and investors with the technology, engineering, and business innovation expertise on the UC Berkeley campus and across the Bay Area.  This year’s theme is “Redefine & Reconnect: Technology Empowering the World,” which will a focus on the impact business, technology and culture have on “innovation in the Enterprise Service, Entrepreneurship, Healthcare and Senior Care sectors.”  Tilbury is currently the head of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Engineering.  Zhou founded Youdao, Inc. (NYSE: DAO.US), a Chinese company that provides “learning services and products” for online courses, NetEase Cloud Classroom, and Chinese University MOOC, in addition to online marketing services.