Cao Kanyu

Cao Kanyu, born in 1971, is a Chinese national and holds a doctorate. He earned a bachelor's degree in applied physics from Tsinghua University, a master's degree in physics from Ohio University and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2002 to 2005 he worked at Philips Semiconductors and Hyperband Communications in the United States; from 2005 to 2013 he founded Beijing Quantum Microelectronics and Beijing Findaway Technology; and from 2013 to 2017 he was general manager of the NAND flash business unit at NoVoMem, a GigaDevice subsidiary. He joined ChangXin Memory Technologies in November 2017, serving successively as executive vice president of Ruili Integration and of product R&D and technology R&D at CXMT, and as general manager of ChangXin Jidian; he has been a director since June 2021 and chief executive officer and president since April 2023. As the company's technical leader he drove the development of its third- and fourth-generation process platforms and the full breakthrough of DDR4/LPDDR4X and DDR5/LPDDR5/LPDDR5X memory chips from design to mass production, and holds 29 granted patents. He was named a National Outstanding Engineer in January 2024.