Professional biography

Susie Wee had a 15 year career at Hewlett Packard where she held a number of roles. Most recently, Susie was the Chief Technology Officer of Client Cloud Services in HP’s Personal Systems Group, where she was responsible for HP’s cloud strategy for its personal computing products including desktops, notebooks, smartphones, and touch products.

Prior to this, Susie was the founding Vice President of the Experience Software Business in HP’s Personal Systems Group which was responsible for the software and experience design for HP’s consumer and commercial personal computing products, including software products for touch, multimedia, PC setup and management, and social collaboration. 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.

Previously, Susie was the lab director of the HP Labs Mobile and Media Systems Lab, which included research in experience design, streaming media, collaboration, networking, video, audio, 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. At HP Labs, she also managed the Streaming Media Systems Group and the Multimedia Communications and Networking Department. Susie began her career at HP Labs as a researcher specializing in video and multimedia communication technologies. She and her teams contributed to the creation of HP’s Halo Visual Collaboration product and HP’s OpenCall Media Platform for 3G mobile video.

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. While at HP Labs, Susie was a consulting assistant professor at Stanford University where she co-taught a graduate-level course on digital video processing.

Susie received the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame award in 2010, ComputerWorld’s Top 40 Innovators under 40 award in 2007, the INCITs Technical Excellence award in 2007, and Technology Review’s Top 100 Young Innovators award in 2002. She became an IEEE Fellow in 2009 and has over 50 international publications and over 40 granted patents.

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 a personal blog entitled Reflections. Susie enjoys playing ice hockey, trail running, and mountain biking.