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Practical Technologies, Theory, Practical Technologies Liwei Ren, Ph.D
Xidian University, Xi’an, China, June, 29, 2016
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Background
• Liwei Ren, Ph.D – Research interests
• Data security, network security, differential compression
• Deep Learning
• Math modeling & algorithms.
– Major achievements:
• 10+ academic papers in mathematics.
• 27 US patents granted + a few more pending: network management, differential compression, DLP, network security, malware classification, mobile security and etc. ;
• Co-founded a data security company Provilla in Silicon Valley with successful exit.
– Education
• MS/BS in mathematics, Tsinghua University, Beijing
• Ph.D in mathematics, MS in information science, University of Pittsburgh
• Trend Micro™
– Global security software company with headquarter in Tokyo, and R&D centers in Silicon Valley, Nanjing and Taipei;
– One of top security software vendors.
– A leader in cloud security.
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Background
• My journey from academy to industrial practice back to academic research
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Evangelism
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Patents
• What are these 27 patents all about?
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The Theory of Approximate Matching
• From DLP partial match to a theoretic framework
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The Theory of Approximate Matching
• From a theory to a novel similarity digest scheme TSFP
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The Theory of Approximate Matching
• The framework of approximate match in stringology:
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The Theory of Differential Compression
• We have an intention to build a theoretical framework for differential compression
– This will be introduced in another PPT
• I came here to collaborate with Prof Li and her excellent group of researchers.
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Summary
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• Technologies and Patents – A patent describes a technology that tells you WHAT to do.
– It just solves a practical problem.
• Theory: – A theory tells you WHY a technology is designed in such an approach.
– It helps you evaluate how good a technology is.
– It guides us how to improve the technology
– It also guide you to innovate new technologies.
– And it has its own value for satisfying our curiosity for truth that does not depend our greedy nature for exploring practical use.