Yuh-Jye aka EJ got his Computer Science Ph.D from Syracuse University. From 1998 to 2011 he joined Bell Laboratories and became a member of technical staff researcher. Since 2011, he returned to Taiwan, joined ITRI as the technical deputy director and lead the distributed storage system development team.

EJ is now the deputy director of the Division of DCSS (Data Center System Software), which has the exclusive mission in promoting cloud computing by developing technologies, contributing to OpenStack and enabling relating industries on behalf of ICL (Information and Communications Research Lab.) of ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) in Taiwan.

EJ has been leading the effort of developing ITRI-CloudOS for several years, this government funded project started even before OpenStack foundation was established. ITRI-CloudOS carries the same vision as that of OpenStack to make cloud computing pervasive and to be an “utility”. The technology developed has been transferred and deployed to industry heavyweights like Inventec, Wistron (WiWynn), and Delta Electronics in Taiwan. The efforts also led to two spin-offs in the VSaaS and IaaS sectors.

Under the leadership of EJ, DCSS continue to focus on promoting OpenStack as the foundation for business creation (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), developing added layers (TaaS-Testing as a Service), contributing to OpenStack code base, serving as an advisor and executor for MOEA (Ministry of Economic Affairs), creating applications (Productivity 4.0) as well as working closely with CCAT (Cloud Computing Association in Taiwan) and OSTWUG (OpenStack Taiwan User Group) for education, activities (Hackathon) and increasing awareness.