Dr. Dongmin Chen is the Executive Director of the Guangdong Songshan Lake Materials Lab. He is an Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, and a co-director of the Center for Emerging Technology Industry Development, at Peking University. He was the former Director of the Office of Science and Technology Development at Peking University, which oversees university-industrial partnership, university technology licensing, spin-offs, and University Entrepreneurship Education Program. Prof. Chen was a former advisor of WIPO Global Innovation Index. He is also an advisor in innovative economic development of a number of municipal government in China.
Dr. Chen is a serial entrepreneur and has co-founded two silicon-valley-startups, raised more than 100M USD from top VC firms. He is a partner of Light Capital, an early-stage venture fund. He co-authored more than 100 scientific publications and 150 US and international patents. Dr. Chen is an advisor and a former Associated Editor for the Journal of Applied Physics.