Emma Xu is a registered patent agent who focuses her practice on patent preparation and prosecution in the computer science and electrical engineering fields. Her training and experience give her a comprehensive command of modern computing, from hardware and computer architecture through software systems, algorithms, and artificial intelligence. This breadth allows her to engage substantively with inventions across the technology stack.

Before entering patent practice, Ms. Xu worked as a software engineer at Bloomberg L.P. and at an enterprise software company in Silicon Valley specializing in distributed data replication. Through these roles, she gained practical experience in the design, validation, reliability, and deployment of complex financial and enterprise software systems.

Ms. Xu spent several years conducting doctoral research in computer science at the University of Denver. Her research focused on parallel and GPU computing, including CUDA, with applications in large scale geospatial and LiDAR data processing, as well as machine learning. She has also passed the NCEES Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination in Electrical and Computer Engineering.