Charles Fan

CTO of Cheetah Mobile

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Keynote: AI: From Technologies to ProductsCharles Fan, CTO of Cheeta Mobile

Background:

Charles Fan was founder of VMware and EMC’s China R&D Centers. He suceed growing grew them from 0 to over 1,000 engineers within three years.

Fan started his career as an entrepreneur, co-founding file virtualization startup Rainfinity, which was acquired by EMC in 2005. Charles is an expert in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure and big data, holding a Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Cooper Union.

Growth plans in the US and hiring

The company first established its U.S. operations in early 2014. At present, the company has roughly 50 employees based in the US, across three offices in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and New York.
Cheetah expects to significantly expand its U.S. operations and hiring over the next two years.

A successful big data strategy is key to Cheetah Mobile’s next stage of growth. Cheetah Mobile will establish a major R&D Center in Silicon Valley, to work alongside engineers at other R&D Centers to execute the big data strategy.

This will allow Cheetah, at least this expects the company, to better attract worldwide talent and serve its more than 567 million mobile monthly active users, 74% of which are outside of China. Cheetah Mobile currently employs more than 1,400 R&D people around the globe.