Fermi Wang

Fermi is the CEO and co-founder of Ambarella Inc. (NASDAQ: AMBA), a fabless semiconductor company that focuses on the computer vision markets. Ambarella's products are utilized in a wide variety of human and computer vision applications, including video security, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous driving, and robotic applications.

Before Ambarella, Fermi served as the CEO and co-founder of Afara Websystems, a pioneer in throughput computing for servers that was later acquired by Sun Microsystems. Prior to Afara, Fermi held multiple executive management positions at C-Cube Microsystems. As the vice president and general manager of the home media division, he was responsible for profit and loss for silicon solutions in the DVD, digital video recorder, and digital video distribution and production markets.

Fermi holds several digital video-related patents, including one of MPEGLA's core MPEG-2 and MPEG-4/AVC patents. In 2016, he was honored with the National Taiwan University Distinguished Alumni Award. He is also the recipient of the 2018 Thomas Egleston Medal from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University for his distinguished engineering achievement.