Bo Yang earned his B.Sc. from Tsinghua University in Beijing, and a Ph.D in physics from University of California in San Diego. He Joined IBM (San Jose) in 1998 as an advisory scientist, where he did pioneering work in computational modeling of micromagnetics.

From 2000 to 2004 he was the CTO and a co-founder of egistics Corporation in Beijing, a startup in supply chain management solutions. In late 2004 he started working on douban.com and in 2005 founded Douban Inc.

(Yang Bo and his team in Douban.com, Yang is the 3rd one from left. From blog.douban.com)