Pengju (PJ) Shang is an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the firm's Silicon Valley office.

Areas of Practice

PJ works on a variety of intellectual property matters, including patent prosecution, strategic portfolio development and client counseling. With his academic and industrial experience, PJ prepares and prosecutes patent applications covering a wide range of technology fields, including microprocessor architecture, hardware and software solutions for accelerating Al training and inferencing, sparse Al accelerators, GNN accelerators, Al-based drug discovery, machine learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, distributed filesystem, storage system, social media, and Internet communication.

In his previous career as a software engineer, PJ was trained to design and develop complex technical inventions during his tenure at Google with cloud/platform team, and at EMC with storage filesystem team. As an inventor, PJ received numerous granted patents from United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO).

PJ’s academic background includes a Ph.D degree in Computer Engineering and Computer Architecture in the US. During his Ph.D study, PJ authored a list of conference publications and journal publications covering research fields including large-scale data management, cloud, database, file/storage system, machine learning, power efficient and high-performance computing.