Miles Wen

Miles Wen, co-founder and CEO of Fano Labs Limited, an AI company, focusing on Automatic SpeechRecognition and Natural Language Processing, helping enterprises with customer services, compliance and more.

Miles along with his team made Fano Labs in becoming one of the few IT Companies inHong Kong in receiving the Enterprise Support Scheme under the Innovation and Technology Fund and the first Hong Kong start-up to be awarded funding by Horizons Ventures which is the leading investor in some of the world’s most innovative companies and disruptive technologies. Additionally, Fano Labs have been recently designated as a Designated Local Research Institution by the Innovation and Technology Commission.

Since early 2016, he has been appointed as an Honorary Assistant Professor at HKU. Miles is also the author of over 10 academic papers and the inventor of one patent. Also, Miles is an alumni of Lee Hysan Hall, former resident tutor at New College, former Founding Vice-President of Eta Kappa Nu (Lambda Iota Chapter) at HKU, and former Fulbright scholar at Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley.

Miles holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering with First Class Honors (minor in Finance) and a PhD degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from HKU.

Awards and Honors

• Fulbright-RGC Hong Kong Research Scholar Award, 2014-2015
• “The Fulbright Program is a program for international educational exchange for students, scholars, teachers, professionals, scientists, and artists, founded by United States Senator J. William Fulbright in 2946. It is one of the most prestigious awards programs worldwide, operating in over 155 countries. Forty-three Fulbright alumina have won Nobel Prizes (including two in 2010, Peter A. Diamond and Ei-ichi Negishi).” – from Wikipedia: Fulbright Program
• The Hong Kong Electric Co. Ltd., Electrical Energy Postgraduate Scholarship, 2012.
• My sincere thanks to The Hong Kong Electric Co. Ltd. for this generous support.
• Hong Kong Phd Fellowship, August 2011.
• Established by Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC) in 2009, the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) aims at attracting the best and brightest students in the world to pursue their PhD studies in Hong Kong's institutions. This is one of the most competitive fellowship schemes for PhD students in Hong Kong (125 awardees out of 4,024 applications as of the year 2011).
• Wong Fan Prize, July 2011.
• The Wong Fan Prize in Electrical and Electronic Engineering is given as a result of the performance in the overall examination and coursework results in the third year study of the Bachelor of Engineering curriculum.
• Dean's Honors List (Top 5%), June 2010 and June 2011.
• Dean's Honors List is the most prominent way to recognize a B.Eng. student's outstanding academic achievement in the University of Hong Kong.
• Entry Scholarship, HKU, November 2008.

Professional Affiliations

• IEEE Student Member.
• Member of IEEE Communication Society (IEEE-ComSoc).
• Member of IEEE Power and Energy Society (IEEE-PES).
• Member of IEEE Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-EKN).