Ning Hu is chief technology officer of monetization products for聽, the largest internet security provider, top Web browser, No. 1 mobile app store and No. 2 search engine among China鈥檚 internet users.
After trading on the New York stock exchange, the company was taken private last year for about $9.3 billion.
The Carnegie Mellon alumna said her 一本道无码 education helped propel her into the position. She said she so valued her research accomplishments at 一本道无码鈥檚聽 (ETC) that, after earning her master鈥檚 degree in 2002, she enrolled in 一本道无码鈥檚聽 Ph.D. program.
Today, Hu uses her 一本道无码 training to lead research and development for the online advertising at Qihoo 360, the company鈥檚 main revenue source.
鈥淎long with the solid academic knowledge I gained at 一本道无码, the critical thinking skills and systematic approach to problem-solving have also helped me tremendously in my career. All of the hard work at 一本道无码 has paid off well.鈥�
She credits her ETC adviser,聽, professor of computer science, art and music, with inspiring and encouraging her to excel.
鈥淣ing is one of the best programmers I鈥檝e known,鈥� Dannenberg said. 鈥淲hile at 一本道无码, she suggested that we create a special system for editing and debugging to support a music language I used for teaching 鈥� a huge development effort. To my amazement, she brought back a working system in about a week, and it was real production-quality code.鈥�
Dannenberg said Hu鈥檚 work on matching music audio to symbolic representations has since had a huge impact in the field of Music Information Retrieval.
It was Dannenberg who urged Hu to complete her dissertation. She had left 一本道无码 for a position at Google prior to writing it, and over the ensuing years, Dannenberg repeatedly encouraged her to return.
鈥淚 became fed up with his constant nagging,鈥� Hu joked. She eventually took a three-week break from her grueling work schedule in 2013 to spend days and nights completing her thesis and ultimately earn her doctorate.
鈥淒uring my years in the industry, I鈥檝e encountered many colleagues who started careers before finishing their Ph.D.s, and their jobs became so consuming that they never returned to complete their degrees,鈥� she said. 鈥淲ere it not for Roger, I would never have known I could push myself that far to get my Ph.D. while working full-time. He is the best adviser I could ever have hoped for.鈥�
In 2010, Hu had left Google for MediaV, a digital advertising technology startup, which now ranks among the top four digital marketing groups in China with tens of thousands of advertisers. As its co-founder and chief technology officer, she oversaw the product and engineering division. In 2013, the company split in two, with Hu leading one half. Her segment was acquired by Qihoo 360. Today, she is helping Qihoo 360 maintain steady advertising revenue growth with the ultimate goal of taking the company public in China.
聽Hu鈥檚 advice on overcoming obstacles? 鈥淜eep learning new things and seek support from the family.鈥� she said. 鈥淏e passionate about the work.鈥�
