Tang was born in
Anshan, Liaoning, northeastern China in 1968. Tang received a Bachelor of Science with a major in
computer science from the
University of Science and Technology of China in 1990. He received a Master of Science from the
University of Rochester in 1991 and a Doctor of Philosophy in
ocean engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996. He worked at MIT and
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution during his doctoral studies. Funders of his research included the
Office of Naval Research of the
United States Department of the Navy. After graduating from MIT, Tang taught in the Department of Information Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2001, he founded the Multimedia Laboratory of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. From 2005 to 2008, he worked at
Microsoft Research Asia. He served as Associate Dean of the
Chinese University of Hong Kong. Upon SenseTime's
IPO in December 2021, Tang was estimated to have a net worth of approximately $3.4 billion. Tang died on 15 December 2023, at the age of 55. SenseTime made the announcement the next day and changed the colour scheme of its website to black-and-white in mourning. The Chinese University of Hong Kong also changed his faculty page to a black-and-white theme. ==References==