Dr. Xu Li
Co-Founder, Executive Chairman of the Board, Executive Director, Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Xu Li (徐立) is our Co-Founder, Executive Chairman of the Board, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer. He was appointed as a Director on December 15, 2015 and re-designated as an Executive Director on August 23, 2021. He is primarily responsible for our Group’s vision strategy, business development and daily operations. He has been an adjunct professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University since December 2018.
Before joining our Group, Dr. Xu Li was a research scientist at Lenovo Group Ltd. From August 2013 to March 2015, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from October 2010 to July 2013.
Dr. Xu Li obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering in July 2004 and his master’s degree in computer engineering in March 2007 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大學), and his Ph. D. degree in computer science and engineering in December 2010 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he focused on research on computer vision and computational imaging.
Dr. Xu Li was ranked top ten in Fortune’s Global List of 40 Under 40 in 2018, an annual ranking published by Fortune featuring the most influential young people in the business sector. He was also listed on Fortune China’s 40 Under 40, a list featuring 40 young business elites in China, for five consecutive years from 2017 to 2021. He was named as the Technology Category Winner of Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year China 2018 and the Hong Kong InnoStars Award (香港創新領軍人物大獎) by Our Hong Kong Foundation (團結香港基金) in 2019.
Dr. Wang Xiaogang
Co-Founder, Executive Director,Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President
Dr. Wang Xiaogang (王曉剛) is our Co-Founder, Executive Director,Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President. He was appointed as a Director on October 10, 2016 and re-designated as an Executive Director on August 23, 2021. He is primarily responsible for overseeing and supervising our Group’s research team. He joined the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as an assistant professor in August 2009 and has been a professor since August 2020. He has been the Chairman of China Augmented Reality Core Technology Industry Alliance (中國增強現實焦点技術產業聯盟) since June 2019.
Dr. Wang has published numerous papers at major conferences and journals and his publications have received over 65,000 citations according to Google Scholar, with an H-Index of 120. He was awarded the honorable mention of the PAMI Young Researcher Award by the IEEE Computer Society in 2016 and the Hong Kong RGC Early Career Award in 2012. He was the area chair of various international conferences between 2011 and 2017, including the CVPR, ICCV and ECCV.
Dr. Wang obtained his bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering and information science from the Special Class of Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China in July 2001. He further obtained an MPhil degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in December 2003 and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in June 2009.
Dr. Lin Dahua
Co-founder, Executive Director, Chief Scientist and Executive Vice President
Dr. Lin Dahua, as a Co-founder, Executive Director, Chief Scientist and Executive Vice President of SenseTime Group, is primarily responsible for the technological deployment and research and development planning of the Group in pioneering areas including AI infrastructure and Large Model, and is also the responsible person of the Chinese University of Hong Kong-SenseTime Joint Laboratory (香港中文大學-商湯聯合實驗室).
Dr. Lin commenced his tenure at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (“CUHK”) in the Department of Information Engineering as an assistant professor in August 2014 and was promoted to associate professor in August 2020. He has served as the director of the CUHK Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (香港中文大學人工智能交织學科研究所) since April 2021, and was dual-appointed as a leading scientist at the Shanghai AI Laboratory (上海人工智能實驗室) since November 2021. He has also served as the chairman of the Large Model Standard Working Group (大模子標準事情組) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since June 2023. From September 2012 to August 2014, Dr. Lin held the position of research assistant professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago.
Dr. Lin obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering and Information Science from the University of Science and Technology of China in July 2004, followed by a Master of Philosophy at the CUHK in July 2006. He then earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in July 2012.
Mr. Yang Fan
Co-founder, Executive Director and President of the SenseCore Business Group
Mr. Yang Fan is a co-founder, executive director, VP and President of the SenseCore Business Group at SenseTime. He is responsible for leading the strategic planning and implementation of SenseCore, overseeing the development of AI computing capabilities, and driving the application and ecosystem growth of AI technologies. Mr. Yang has played a pivotal role in scaling several of SenseTime's core businesses, including identity verification and entertainment, into commercially successful operations. He spearheaded the planning and construction of dedicated AI computing centers, laying the groundwork for an emerging industrial ecosystem around AI infrastructure. He also co-founded the Artificial Intelligence Computing Power Industry Ecological Alliance (ICPA), to facilitate the technological innovation and application of AI chips.
Mr. Yang is an engineering Ph.D. candidate for the Innovation Leadership Program at Tsinghua University. He also received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering in Tsinghua University. He currently holds many roles in various industrial groups and advisory boards, including member of the AI Expert Library of MIIT (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China), member of Expert Group of AI Social Experimentation of MOST (Ministry of Science and Technology of China), managing director of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, member of the Industry Expert Consultant Library of Shenzhen Exchange, and chairman of ICPA.
Mr. Wang Zheng
Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director
Mr. Wang Zheng is SenseTime's Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director, Head of the Enterprise Innovation Group, and General Manager of SenseTime Hong Kong.
Prior to joining SenseTime, Mr. Wang worked for over 10 years at Silver Lake and served as Managing Director and Head of Greater China. Before joining Silver Lake, he worked at General Atlantic where he focused on technology and healthcare related investments. Previously, Mr. Wang was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company’s Corporate Finance Practice. Earlier in his career, Mr. Wang also worked for Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse in Silicon Valley.
Mr. Wang graduated summa cum laude from Yale College with majors in both Computer Science and Economics.