Summary
Tiegeng Ren is a seasoned technology leader and inventor with over a decade building hardware-software products as CTO and co-founder of FIGUR8 and REON Technology. He combines deep embedded and full-stack engineering expertise—spanning low-power firmware, real-time scheduling, regulatory compliance, and system architecture—with hands-on product commercialization that produced one of the market-leading NetBotz IoT sensor suites. A Ph.D. in Computer Science underpins his practical work in wireless sensor networks and TDMA scheduling, where published research and tools like RISim advanced performance in dense deployments. Known for assembling high-performing cross-functional teams, he partners with C-level peers to evaluate emerging tech and translate it into scalable, market-ready solutions. Outside work he’s a tinkerer and dad of three, which helps explain his practical, user-focused approach to engineering trade-offs.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy at University of Rhode Island
Bachelor of Engineering - (BEng. Electrical Engineering), Bachelor of Engineering - (BEng. Electrical Engineering) at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English