Dr. Winston Wu, PhD

Dr. Winston Wu has served as the Senior Vice President of Product Development and Chief Technology Officer of Cognos since July 2017. At UCLA, his work in creating one of the first wearable body sensor systems based around a smartphone was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and he helped define and create a first-of-its-kind fully integrated cane device with motion acceleration, rotational gyroscope, and pressure sensors targeted towards elder cane users. His industrial experience has been focused on FDA-regulated medical devices. He was the team leader of many projects from concept to commercialization and is the author of ten IEEE journal and conference publications and holds twelve patents relating to various innovative medical technology systems and concepts. He has been recognized for his achievements by many groups including winning a Fellowship Award from the NIH and being given a scholarship from the Leon Weinberg Memorial Scholarship Organization. In addition to his work with Cognos, Dr. Wu currently serves on the editorial board of IEEE Journal of Biomedical Health Informatics. Dr. Wu has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from San Francisco State University and a PhD in Electrical Engineering for Embedded Computing Systems from UCLA.