Engineering
Frank Wang
Founder of DJI, the world's largest drone maker
Born 1980
Photo: Suyash Dwivedi · CC BY-SA 4.0
Frank Wang founded DJI while still a student and built it into the company that makes the majority of the world's consumer drones. His final year project was a helicopter flight control system that failed its demonstration.
Key achievements
- Founded DJI in an HKUST dorm room, 2006
- Built the world's leading consumer drone maker
- MPhil thesis on autonomous helicopter control systems
Universities
Hong Kong, Clear Water Bay
Studied electronic engineering and founded DJI in his dormitory room in 2006 using the prize money from a robotics competition.
Facts
- His graduation project crashed during the demonstration and he received a poor mark for it.
- A professor who saw potential in the work gave him a research place and early backing, and the university later invested in DJI.
- He started the company with three classmates in a dorm room, working on it between lectures.
Photographs
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