Fermi Wang
MS’89, MPhil’91 PhD’91, P: EN’23 EN’25; CEO, Ambarella
Dr. Wang is CEO and co-founder of Ambarella Inc. (NASDAQ: AMBA), which is a leading developer of low-power, high-definition (HD), and Ultra HD video compression and image processing solutions. He is a serial entrepreneur and a video compression technology expert. Dr. Wang holds several digital video-related patents, including one of MPEGLA's core MPEG-2 and MPEG-4/AVC patents.
Prior to Ambarella, Dr. Wang was CEO and co-founder of Afara Websystems, which pioneered server throughput computing. Afara was acquired by Sun Microsystems.
Afara’s multi-core, multi-thread CPU is the critical technology in Oracle/Sun’s UltraSPARC roadmap. Before founding Afara, Dr. Wang served in senior engineering and business management roles at C-Cube Microsystems.
Dr. Wang holds a PhD (1991) and MS (1989) in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University.