Biography

Lin Bin, born in February 1968, received a bachelor's degree in Radio Electronics and Engineering from Sun Yat-sen University in July 1990, and an MSc degree from Drexel University in June 1992. He is Xiaomi's co-founder, executive director, and vice chairman, as well as chairman of Xiaomi Foundation Limited in Hong Kong.

Lin Bin co-founded Xiaomi with Lei Jun in 2010, serving as president of Xiaomi Corporation until 2019 before he took the role of Xiaomi's vice chairman.

Earlier in his career, Lin Bin served as the engineering director at Google between 2006 and 2010. Before that, he worked at Microsoft Corporation from 1995 to 2006 and took on various roles such as software design engineer (SDE), SDE lead, SDE manager, and engineering director. Prior to that, Lin Bin worked as a network engineer at ADP Inc. from 1993 to 1995.