David Yen, Ph.D., serves as the Executive Vice President, Emerging Technologies, for Juniper Networks, leading the company's emerging technology initiatives at the intersection of computing and high-performance networking. Dr. Yen came to Juniper from Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he served in a broad range of executive assignments during his nearly 20-year tenure. His team developed Sun's first and second generation multi-CPU SMP servers in the early '90s, which enabled Sun to transform from a workstation company to a leading enterprise server company. After Dr. Yen took over Sun's Microelectronics group in 2001, he turned around Sun's declining SPARC business by focusing on execution and innovation. Sun championed the processor industry by advocating Throughput Computing in 2003 and introduced the industry's first open-sourced, 8-core, 32-thread, eco-friendly general purpose processor Niagara - UltraSPARC T1 in November 2005. Niagara-based servers have grown to a multi-billion dollar business for Sun. Dr. Yen also managed Sun's storage business for one year. Prior to joining Sun Microsystems in 1988, Dr. Yen was Co-Founder and Director of hardware development of Cydrome, Inc., a mini-supercomputer start-up, and served in engineering roles at IBM Research for manufacturing automation and TRW, Inc. for advanced processor development. Dr. Yen earned a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1973, received an M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1980 and completed a General Management Program at Stanford Business School in 1993. Dr. Yen holds three U.S. Patents.