Ms. Yanya Sheng serves as Senior Vice President of Research & Development at UTStarcom Holdings Corp. Ms. Sheng served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Broadband Business Unit of at UTStarcom Holdings Corp. In this role, Ms. Sheng is responsible for overall business unit leadership and management, including technology R&D and product portfolio management. Ms. Sheng joined UTStarcom in April 2003 and has held a series of Director and Vice President positions in global engineering, network management and R&D. Previously, Ms. Sheng held technical and senior management roles in engineering design and management at Nortel Networks, Hitachi Telecom and several telecommunications startups in the United States and Canada, including Silicon Valley-based Xros, Inc., an optical switching company acquired by Nortel Networks. Ms. Sheng holds a B.Eng. in Electronics Engineering from Southeast University, China; a M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering from Institute of Plasma Physics, Academia Sinica, China and a M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Calgary, Canada.