Chih-Han Yu

CEO and Co-founder, Appier

Chih-Han Yu is CEO and co-founder of Appier, a leading AI company whose mission is to help enterprises solve their most challenging business problems with AI-powered platforms. Under Yu's leadership, Appier has grown from a 4-person living room startup to a multinational leading AI company in Asia, recognized as one of the top 50 revolutionary AI companies by Fortune Magazine. In 2016, Yu was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, making Appier the only Asian AI company to make the list. Prior to Appier, Yu authored dozens of research articles in the field of AI, robotics and machine learning. In 2010, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in AI from Harvard University, where his doctoral thesis was nominated as the best thesis of the year in the field of multi-agent AI. Prior to Harvard, Yu earned his master's degree from Stanford’s AI Lab, where he made fundamental contributions in applying machine learning to autonomous robots such as four-legged robots and self-driving vehicles.