Ling Fan is a design technology scholar and entrepreneur. He founded Tezign.com, a technology unicorn with the mission of building next generation digital infrastructure for creative resources. Tezign has partnered with more than 200 leading enterprises and more than 50,000 creators worldwide.
Fan is the director and professor of Tongji University Design AI Lab at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and an Aspen Institute China Fellow. Fan received his doctoral degree from Harvard University and master’s degree from Princeton University, and was an assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley and China Central Academy of Fine Arts.