Douglas S. Chan — a.k.a. Sal Ardongdé — is a tech entrepreneur and researcher who is also an award-winning filmmaker. He received from Cornell University his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering with minor in computer science (CS) and M.Eng. degree in electrical engineering (EE), and B.Sc. degree in EE from Queen’s University.

Doug has research interests and a career in multiple tech fields, including wireless communications and machine-learning (ML) based AI. He has founded two tech companies, respectively, in ML for financial analytics and Wi-Fi networks. Prior to that, he held engineering positions at Cisco Systems and IBM and had a post-doc appointment at UC Berkeley Dept. of EECS.

As Sal Ardongdé, he received his M.F.A. degree from Loyola Marymount University in film & TV production (specializing on film directing). His films have been screened at international film festivals, including of Oscar-qualifying.

Doug / Sal’s current research is on generative AI for multimedia content and new media with technologies.