Miles WenCo-Founder and CEO, Fano

Dr. Miles Wen is CEO and co-founder of Fano Labs Limited, a spin-off company from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) that has raised multiple rounds of venture investment from renowned investors such as Horizons Ventures, Gobi Partners and Openspace Ventures. Dr. Wen specializes in information and communication technologies, optimization algorithms, big data, and machine learning and has numerous academic publications and patents. Since 2016, he has been appointed as Adjunct Assistant Professor (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) at HKU, where he takes an active role in guest lecturing on topics related to technology transfer, startups, and artificial intelligence applications.

Dr. Wen also actively contributes to the technology ecosystem. He is an active mentor at the iDendron Incubation Program at HKU, Founding Vice President of HKSTP Startups Alumni Association, EEE Industry Advisory Committee Member, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Member of Hong Kong Trade Development Council Electronics / Electrical Appliances Industries Advisory Committee, and Member of the Expert Review Panel of Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Centre.

Dr. Wen received his B.Eng. (CE) with First Class Honors and Ph.D. (EEE) from HKU in 2011 and 2015, respectively. He was also a Fulbright Scholar of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley.