Dr. Wee is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of DevAI, an early-stage, VC-backed startup building network intelligence agents for the IT industry. Dr. Wee is a technology and business executive who held senior executive positions at Google, Cisco Systems, and Hewlett Packard. Dr. Wee was Vice President of Cross-Product Experiences at Google, where her team contributed to the iOS and Android mobile applications of Google’s products. Prior to this, Dr. Wee had a 10-year career at Cisco Systems where she held numerous executive positions, including Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Cisco DevNet and Vice President & Chief Technology and Experience Officer of Cisco’s Collaboration Business. Dr. Wee founded and led Cisco’s developer program, DevNet, and created a DevNet Partner Specialization integrated with Cisco’s partner program and DevNet Professional Certifications integrated with Cisco’s Learning and Certification business, which she also led. Previously, Dr. Wee had a 15-year career at Hewlett Packard, where she held a number of technical and leadership roles, including Vice President and General Manager of the HP Experience Software Business, Lab Director of the Mobile and Media Systems Lab at HP Labs, and Research Scientist in HP Labs.
Dr. Wee is an IEEE Fellow for her contributions in multimedia technologies and has received numerous awards, including Technology Review’s Top 100 Young Innovators award in 2002, INCIT’s Technical Excellence award in 2007, ComputerWorld’s Top 40 Innovators under 40 in 2007, Women in Technology’s Hall of Fame award in 2010, the Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women list in 2012, the Red Dot Design Award in 2015, Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Award in 2019, and the YWCA Silicon Valley Tribute to Women Award in 2020.
Dr. Wee received her S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and she serves on the Visiting Committee of the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.