H.T. is the William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering in the United States, and a Member of Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
H.T. co-developed optimistic concurrency control, a fundamental principle in memory and database transaction systems, including MySQL, Apache CouchDB, Google’s App Engine, Ruby on Rails, and more. His parallel computing research produced systolic arrays, which have become a core component of hardware accelerators of AI. He remains an active researcher with ongoing contributions to computational complexity theory, AI, signal processing, and many other fields.
H.T. volunteers as the President of the Taiwan AI Academy, a non-profit organization with campuses in three cities nurturing thousands of AI talents for the industry.
H.T. received a Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. degree from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Before joining Harvard, he was on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon.