Founder and CEO

Dr. Tian obtain his B.S and M.S degrees from the Department of Precision Instruments in Tsinghua Universtity in 1999 and 2001, respectively, and Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in 2006.

Tian Kehan majored in the Department of Precision Instruments received the bachelor’s and the master’s degrees from Tsinghua University in 1999 and 2001 respectively, and doctoral degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in USA in 2006. He has been engaged in leading-edge researches on Micro-Nano diffraction optics, 3D optical systems and semiconductor precision manufacturing for a long time. Since 2006, Dr. Tian has worked as a senior scientist/researcher (at professor level) in T.J.Watson Research Center and Semiconductor R&D Center of IBM Corporation in the United States, and engaged in the world’s leading research in the fields of advanced semiconductors, advanced lithography and advanced Micro-Nano diffraction optics. In 2010 and 2012, he won the IBM highest research achievement awards twice. In 2014, he won the title of IBM Master Inventor (IBM highest invention award), and won the IBM invention achievement award for six years consecutivly (2008-2013). After returning to China where he found UPhoton, Dr. Tian was awarded the National and Zhejiang Talent Plan Awards for many times.