Deng Zhonghan (; born 5 September 1968) is a Chinese electrical engineer and Internet entrepreneur. The co-founder of

Vimicro International Corporation Vimicro Corporation () is a Chinese fabless chip company which specializes in research and development and production and marketing of multimedia processors for personal computers (PCs) and mobile phones. It is headquartered in Haidian District, ...

, Deng is currently its chairman and chief executive officer. In 2020, Deng was elected a member of the

National Academy of Engineering The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is an American Nonprofit organization, nonprofit, NGO, non-governmental organization. It is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), along with the National Academ ...

for the development of the world's first CMOS single-chip web camera and China's Surveillance Video and Audio Coding (SVAC) national video standard. Deng is a member of the 10th and 11th National People's Congress, currently serves as the vice president of China Association for Science and Technology.

Career

Deng received two master's degrees in Physics and Economics, then a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

. After graduation, he worked as a research scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center before co-founding Pixim, Inc. which was acquired by

Sony is a Japanese multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The Sony Group encompasses various businesses, including Sony Corporation (electronics), Sony Semiconductor Solutions (i ...

. In 1999, Deng co-founded Vimicro Corporation in the Zhongguancun High-Tech district of

Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...

. There he led the Vimicro engineering team to invent and develop the world's first single-chip high-performance, low-power video signal-processing VLSI CMOS chipset for PC/laptop web cameras. In 2005, Vimicro was listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange. In 2008, Deng led the China "National Starlight Integrated-Circuit Project"as the Chief Executive at the State Key Laboratory of Digital Multimedia IC Design Technology as Chief Scientist to innovate and develop advanced algorithms, architecture, and semiconductor chipsets for the field of networked video surveillance technology. Vimicro developed the SVAC (Surveillance Video and Audio Coding) standard, which was approved as the Chinese national standard in 2011. As of 2017, Vimicro owns more than 1600 patents, dominates the PC camera processor market with 60 percent global market share. Deng was elected to the

Chinese Academy of Engineering The Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE, ) is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for engineering. It was established in 1994 and is an institution of the State Council of China. The CAE and the Chinese Academy of Sciences a ...

in 2009 at the age of 41, making him the youngest academician in the history of the CAE.

Personal life

He is married to the famous singer Tan Jing, who gave birth to a child in 2014.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Deng, Zhonghan 1968 births Chinese technology company founders Chinese computer businesspeople Living people Scientists from Nanjing Engineers from Jiangsu University of Science and Technology of China alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Businesspeople from Nanjing Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Chinese electrical engineers Members of the 14th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference