THE FOUNDERS

Zexiang Li

 

PhD, Univ of California, Berkeley

 

Colin Lam Ko Yin Professor of Engineering, HKUST; Fellow, IEEE Recipient of the 2019 IEEE

 

 

Recipient of the 2019 IEEE Robotics and Automation Award

 

 

Founder of HKUST Automation Technology Center (ATC) & Robotics Research Institute (RI) Co-founder of Googol Tech, CiDi and DJI One of the 40 model innovators and entrepreneurs for the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone

THE FOUNDERS

Ping K. Ko

 

PhD, Univ of California, Berkeley

 

Former Dean of Engineering, HKUST; Professor Emeritus of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, HKUST

 

Recipient of the 2002 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award

 

Co-founder of Silicon Federation International. Long-term innovator and investor in China's semiconductor chip design and integrated systems industry

THE FOUNDERS

Jie Gan

 

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Professor of Finance and Director of Center on Finance and Economic Growth, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB); Director of DJI and Rega Capital Management

 

Expert in asset pricing, automation, banking, China’s industrial economy, corporate finance, entrepreneurship, financial regulation, manufacturing, and stock markets

THE STORY

Professor Li joins the Automation Technology Center (ATC) at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

1992

HKUST ATC

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Establishment of Googol Tech, the first startup company to come out of the ATC.

1999

Googol Tech

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Frank Wang, a graduate student at HKUST, develops his graduation project on helicopter flight control into a company called DJI with the help of Professor Li.

2006

Dajiang Innovations

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Jinbo Shi and other HKUST students found QKM, a startup company focusing in R&D, production, sales, and application of lightweight industrial robots.

2001

QKM Tech

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Establishment of Songshan Lake Xbot Park by Professors Li Zexiang, Ping K. Ko, and Gan Jie

2014

XbotPark

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A new campus of XbotPark was officially launched.

2023

XbotPark

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Currently incubating over 80 famous robotics & smart hardware companies, and 6 of them have become unicorns...

2025

XbotPark