Professional biography

Susie Wee is the Chief Technologist of Client Cloud Services in HP’s Personal Systems Group. Her goal is to create HP’s strategy in client-based cloud services and ultimately create new business opportunities with new business models for HP.

Previously, Susie was the founding Vice President of the Experience Software Business in HP’s Personal Systems Group. The goal of ESB is to create compelling, easy-to-use experiences and services on HP’s personal computing products. She grew the business from 1 to 100 employees in 1.5 years spanning 4 product lines with capabilities in experience design, software, marketing, and operations. ESB has employees in the US, France, China, Taiwan, and India.

Prior to this, Susie was the lab director of the HP Labs Mobile and Media Systems Lab, which included research in experience design, streaming media, networking, computer vision & graphics, media security, semantic data management, and next-generation mobile multimedia systems. MMSL had activities in the US, Japan, and England, and included collaborations with partners around the world.

Susie was the co-editor of the JPSEC standard for the security of JPEG-2000 images and the editor of the JPSEC amendment on File Format Security. She was formerly an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits, Systems, and Video Technology and for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. In addition to working at HP Labs, Susie was a consulting assistant professor at Stanford University since 1999. At Stanford she co-taught a graduate-level course on digital video processing.

Susie received Technology Review’s Top 100 Young Innovators award in 2002. She received the ComputerWorld Top 40 Innovators under 40 in 2007. She received the INCITs Technical Excellence award in 2007. Susie was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2009.

Susie received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has over 50 international publications and over 35 granted patents. She authors two blogs entitled Research, Technology, and Teamwork and Reflections.