Ping Fu was born on 1958 and is a Chinese-American entrepreneur.
17 Facts About Ping Fu
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Ping Fu co-founded Geomagic in 1997 with her then-husband Herbert Edelsbrunner, and has been recognized for her achievements with the company through a number of awards, including being named Inc magazine's 2005 "Entrepreneur of the Year".
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Ping Fu was born in 1958 in Nanjing, China, where her father was a professor at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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Ping Fu grew up during the Cultural Revolution, during which she was separated from both her parents for several years.
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Ping Fu initially enrolled at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque but later moved to San Diego to study computer science as an undergraduate at the University of California, San Diego.
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Ping Fu's focus was on computer graphics and visualization, including projects such as developing the morphing software for animation of the liquid metal T-1000 robot in the film Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
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In 1994 Ping Fu took a temporary position at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, returning to NCSA in 1995.
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Ping Fu founded Geomagic with her then-husband, Herbert Edelsbrunner, whose research formed the basis for the initial software to be developed by the company.
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Ping Fu was originally named Raindrop Geomagic and was based in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
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Ping Fu was able to lead Geomagic back to stability, gaining a significant contract with Align Technology, and Geomagic returned to profitability over the following two years.
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Ping Fu became known as a leader in digital shape sampling and processing.
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Ping Fu became the Chief Strategy Officer and Vice-President of 3D Systems.
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Ping Fu has served on the US National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship since 2010 and is a member of the National Council on Women in Technology.
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Ping Fu serves on the board of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina, the board of Live Nation Entertainment and is an advisor at Modern Meadow, an organization focused on tissue engineering.
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Since 2017, Ping Fu has served on the Board of Directors of the Burning Man Project; she first attended Burning Man in 2010, and she gave Burning Man a donation to support the purchase of Fly Ranch.
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Around the same time, first in English, then in Chinese on Forbes China, Forbes published an interview with Fu that discussed Fu's memoir and her early life, which contained an inaccurate interpretation of where Ping Fu lived during the cultural revolution.
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Ping Fu acknowledged that there were some inaccuracies in the book.