Sherman Chen (aka Xuemin Chen) is the Vice President of Technology at Broadcom’s Broadband Communications Group (BCG), responsible for the development and integration of new technologies into BCG System-on-Chips (SoCs), and driving the broadband technology roadmap to enable broadband media services to and throughout the home.

Mr. Chen has a Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California. He is an IEEE fellow and a Broadcom Fellow, and an inventor of more than 100 granted US patents and 300 published patent applications worldwide in digital communications architecture, system and signal processing. He has published over 80 research articles, reports and book chapters, and three graduate-level textbooks on digital communications, entitled Error-Control Coding for Data Network, Transporting Compressed Digital Video and Digital Video Transcoding for Transmission and Storage.

Mr. Chen has an extensive engineering career at companies such as General Instrument Corporation (currently Motorola Mobility’s home division) and Broadcom Corporation. He has led many projects of product research, design and development in the areas of broadband communications system architectures, digital video compression and communications over cable, satellite and IP networks, media-processor/DSP/ASIC architectures, and security for VLSI SoCs. He has also actively involved and led many digital communications standard developments.