Meichun Hsu

Director, HP Labs China
Director, Advanced Database Research

Meichun Hsu is director of HP Labs China, responsible for launching the new lab in China and directing research aimed at creating innovations for HP and helping expand HP's business in China . She is also responsible for the Advanced Database Research program at HP Labs.

Hsu came to HP Labs with over 20 years of experience in academic research and industrial R&D. Most recently, she was senior vice president of engineering at Commerce One Inc., where she led the engineering team creating a new business service platform called Conductor.

Prior to Commerce One, Hsu spent four years at HP Labs, where she built and managed the data mining solutions department. Earlier, she managed a technology consulting practice at EDS/A.T.Kearney, and was the chief architect of Workflow Infrastructure at Digital Equipment Corporation, where she delivered the ObjectFlow product, Digital's business process management platform.

Prior to her career in industrial research and development, Hsu was a member of Computer Science Faculty at Harvard University, with a research focus in database systems and distributed systems. She received Harvard University's Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award in 1990.

Hsu has published widely in the area of database and transaction systems, workflow systems, data mining, and Web service platforms. She holds 18 patents in these areas, and in 2001, received the prestigious 10-year best paper award (with two co-authors) from the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases.

Hsu received her PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.