AsiaInfo Technologies Limited announced that GAO Nianshu tendered his resignation as chief executive officer ("CEO") of the Company due to his retirement, The Board further announces that Dr. Ye Ouyang, the current Chief Technology Officer of the Company, has been appointed as the CEO with effect from 1 January 2026. The biographical details of Dr. Ye Ouyang are as follows: Dr. Ye Ouyang, Professor and IEEE Fellow, aged 44, has served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at AsiaInfo Technologies since July 2018. He also chairs the Group's Technology Committee and directs the R&D Center.
He is primarily responsible for setting AsiaInfo's direction of technology and product leadership and overseeing the corporate's global research, development, and innovation activities. Dr. Ye Ouyang has extensive experience in large-scale team management and R&D innovation in the ICT field. He focuses on cross-domain innovation and the commercialization of technologies in cellular networks, AI, and data science.
In November 2022, Dr. Ye Ouyang was elected as an IEEE Fellow in recognition of his outstanding contribution and leadership in the fields of network intelligence and self-organizing cellular networks, making him one of the youngest IEEE Fellows in the interdisciplinary fields of network intelligence, communications, and AI. Dr. Ye Ouyang is a Member of President's Leadership Council at Stevens Institute of Technology, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, and Co-Director of the Tsinghua-AsiaInfo Joint Institute of 6G Network & Intelligent Computing. Prior to joining AsiaInfo, Dr. Ouyang held a position at Verizon, the largest telecommunications operator in the United States.
He serves in various roles across global telecommunication standard bodies, academic institutions, and high-tech organizations, including Chair or Board Member of multiple working groups and conferences within ETSI and IEEE, and Chair of the AI Chapter at the Beijing Software Industry Association. Dr. Ye Ouyang has received numerous awards in both industry and academia, with recent honors including 2017 Asian American Engineer of the Year (AAEOY), 2023 Forbes 100 Most Influential Chinese Selection Award, 2021 Top 100 Diverse Leaders in Tech, US National Diversity Council, 2019 TMForum Future Digital Leader Award, 2022 Science and Technology Award First Prize by CCF (China Computer Federation), 2023 Science and Technology Award First Prize by CAA (China Association of Automation), 2024/2025 Science and Technology Award Second Prize by Beijing City, 2025 Science and Technology Award Second Prize by CIC (China Institute of Communications), 2025 Science and Technology Award Second Prize by CIE (China Institute of Electronics), 2023 Science and Technology Award Second Prize by CCF (China Computer Federation), 2021 Wu Wenjun AI Science and Technology Award by CAAI (Chinese Association for AI), 2020 China Artificial Intelligence Industry Annual Leader Award, 2017 US Telecom Innovation Awards by Fierce (BSS/OSS), 2017 Most Innovative Telco Big Data Analytics Platform Award by Telco Data Analytics USA, 2016 US Telecom Innovation Awards by Fierce, 2015 Chair Award for "Wireless Communications & Interdisciplinary Perspective" Contribution by IEEE WTS, research fund by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData) Best Paper Award. Dr. Ye Ouyang has authored 93 academic papers, holds 212 patents, has contributed to 274 standards, and has published 13 books.
He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Southeast University in China, a Master of Science from Tufts University in the United States, a Master of Science from Columbia University in the United States, and a Ph.D. from Stevens Institute of Technology in the United States.
