Guofang (Golf) Jiao is VP of engineering and chief scientist in Futurewei Technologies Inc. (a subsidiary of Huawei Technology) since late 2016.  He is driving graphics / compute strategy and core competency for the company. He leads the development of innovative end-end architecture and solutions including Game acceleration, advanced 3D rendering / real time Raytracing, UI rendering framework and VR/AR engine etc.

Prior to Futurewei, he was chief architect and senior director of Adreno GPU system team in Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT) at Qualcomm Inc for 11 years where he was in charge of developing five generations of Adreno GPU architectures and technical innovation in both features and high performance / power efficiency.

Prior to Qualcomm Inc, he was chief architect and senior manager of GPU architecture team for PC platforms in Trident Microsystem Inc and then S3 graphics for total 9 years.

Golf holds Ph.D degree of CS from the Chinese academy of sciences in Beijing.