Chih-Han Yu is the CEO and Co-founder of Appier, the leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology company that has enjoyed fast growth since its founding in 2012, offering Cross-Screen marketing solutions enabling brands and advertisers to reach customers across all screens. Before founding Appier, he ran an independent game studio that focused on developing mobile and social apps.

Previously, he was also a researcher at the Wyss Institute, Harvard Medical School, and obtained his doctorate degree in Artificial Intelligence from Harvard. Prior to this, he earned a master's degree from the Stanford AI Lab. He has authored tens of research articles in the fields of AI and machine learning, and has been awarded two US patents. His doctoral thesis was nominated as the best thesis of the year in the field of multi-agent AI. He was also on the champion team of the DARPA Grand Challenge, the renowned autonomous vehicle competition run by the most prominent research organization of the United States Department of Defense.