Deng Zhonghan

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.[7] 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.[8]

In 1999, Deng co-founded Vimicro Corporation in the Zhongguancun High-Tech district of Beijing. 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.[9] In 2005, Vimicro was listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.[10]

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.[11]

Vimicro developed the SVAC (Surveillance Video and Audio Coding) standard, which was approved as the Chinese national standard in 2011.[12] As of 2017, Vimicro owns more than 1600 patents,[13] dominates the PC camera processor market with 60 percent global market share.[14]

Deng was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2009. He is married to the famous singer Tan Jing, who gave birth to a child in 2014.[15]