Chao He is currently the CTO of Airdoc. He is leading Airdoc’s engineering team to develop and provide chronic disease risk assessment service, which is one of the largest retinal image AI analysis services in the world, for tens of millions of customers. The deep learning algorithms in the cloud can recognize, detect or predict more than 50 health risks from retinal images. The technological innovation in the product received the 2019 Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Progress Award, which is one of the most prestigious awards in China for AI technological innovation. Airdoc AI for diabetic retinopathy, one of its core technologies, was approved by the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) in 2020. It is the first approved retinal image AI assisting diagnosis product in the market. His team also designed and developed FD16 portable fundus camera, which is one of the first fully automatic and fully self-service fundus cameras in the world.
From 2015 to 2018, Chao He was VP of R&D of YI Technologies in which he led the engineering team to develop and ship many intelligent cameras and services such as YI Home Camera and Services (serving customers from 190+ countries in the world), YI HALO 3D VR Camera for Jump (with Google, winner of the 2017 NAB ProHUB Awards of Excellence), YI Horizon VR180 camera (with Google), YI 4K+ Action Camera (the world’s first 4K/60fps action camera) and YI Dashcam.
Before that, he was a principal engineering manager at Microsoft. He shipped many products in multimedia areas when he worked in Microsoft such as Windows Media, Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft Lync, Skype for Business, etc.
