Lin Bin studied in Guangdong Experimental School from 1980 to 1986. Guangdong Experimental School, as a provincial key middle school, opened three experimental classes of mathematics, Chinese and English that year. The English experimental class in Lin Bin junior high school used the English textbooks from Hong Kong at that time, emphasizing the study of oral English and listening. After studying in the experimental class for three years, it laid a solid foreign language foundation. After three years of high school, Lin Bin achieved excellent results, ranking first in the whole grade in mid-term and final exams for many times, and winning the inter-school provincial and municipal competitions for many times.
1986, Lin Bin entered the Department of Electronics of Sun Yat-sen University with excellent results. 1990, Lin Bin went to Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA, to study computer science. 1992 graduated.
Self-taught computer programming
Lin Bin began to teach himself computer programming from junior high school. 1982, Lin Bin's mother sent her to study abroad and brought back a computer. At that time, just a few years after the reform and opening up, personal computers were still a completely strange thing. This personal computer has aroused great interest in Lin Bin. It is an early personal computer, with only 4k memory, supporting programming in Basic language, and storing the original program on tape. Lin Bin taught himself basic programming with this computer and wrote a masturbation game. Entering high school, the school began to have microcomputers such as Apple II and IBM PC, and organized a computer programming competition team. As a member of the competition team, Lin Bin began to learn Pascal programming, and participated in various inter-school and provincial computer programming competitions, winning many awards.
Join Microsoft
After Lin Bin 1992 graduated, he first worked as a software development engineer in American Automatic Data Processing Company, engaged in the software design and development of network monitoring and management system based on SNMP and TCP/IP protocols. 1In the summer of 1995, Lin Bin submitted several resumes. After a rigorous interview, he received offer from Microsoft and several famous Wall Street investment banks. Compared with Wall Street's high salary, Microsoft's salary is less than half that of Wall Street, but out of love for software research and development technology, Lin Bin chose Microsoft. 1995, Lin Bin and his family moved to Seattle and joined Microsoft as a software development engineer. Later, he participated in the research and development of large-scale software such as Windows NT 3.5 1, Windows NT 4, IIS, Exchange 2000 and Windows 2000.
Establish Microsoft Asia Institute of Engineering
In 2000, Kai-fu Lee found Lin Bin. At that time, Kai-fu Lee founded Microsoft Research Asia for more than a year. Kai-Fu Lee took a fancy to Lin Bin's experience in developing core product functions at Microsoft headquarters, and hoped that he would return to China as the R&D manager of Microsoft Research Asia, responsible for transforming research technology into product functions. Under the impetus of Lin Bin, the Institute has completed more than 70 technology transfers in three years, covering multimedia, voice, digital ink, graphics, wireless communication and Internet applications, and made outstanding technical contributions to more than 65,438+00 Microsoft products such as tablet computers, Office, MSN, Windows Vista, Xbox and Movie Maker.
In 2003, Lin Bin, together with Zhang Hongjiang and Zhang Yaqin, founded Microsoft Asia Institute of Engineering, and served as the engineering director, responsible for the establishment and management of the engineering team of Microsoft Asia Institute of Engineering, helping the institute to grow from more than 30 people at the time of its establishment to more than 400 people before leaving the company in 2006. At the same time, Lin Bin also directly leads the R&D team with more than 100 people, and is responsible for the research and development of major software projects such as Exchange E 12, E 13, Windows Vista, IE8, speech recognition and synthesis, and real-time communication. In the autumn of 2004, he was awarded the Golden Star Award, Microsoft's highest contribution award.
Join Google
In mid-2006, Kai-fu Lee found Lin Bin again. At that time, Kai-fu Lee was setting up Google China Engineering Research Institute, hoping that Lin Bin could help. One summer in 2006, Lin Bin visited the Software College of Hunan University on behalf of Microsoft, and happened to visit Huda University on behalf of Google. They made an appointment to chat together at night. In a small restaurant outside Huda University, Kaifu asked Lin Bin what he wanted to do in Google most. Lin Bin said, "I have no experience in core search technology. I am good at doing some projects that emphasize product user experience and interaction, are interesting, and have strong user needs in China. " Say "MM suits you best, you do it-music &; Mobile phone.
Joined Google at the end of 2006, and served as vice president, engineering director and global technical director of Google China Engineering Research Institute. Overall responsible for the team formation and engineering research and development of Google China mobile search and service.
Lin Bin is known as the first of Kai-Fu Lee's four vice presidents. He is in charge of two most promising businesses: mobile and music. During his tenure at Google China Engineering Research Institute, Lin Bin was mainly responsible for the research in the field of mobile Internet and the development of Google music search project.
Led the team to release and publish multiple versions of Google Mobile Maps on iPhone, Android, Symbian, WinMo, J2ME and other platforms. Chinese voice search, mobile comprehensive search, mobile dictionary, mobile information, mobile stock weather bus search, mobile video search, mobile finance, enhanced web converter, iPhone shopping search, pinyin input method for Android, Google Dictionary for Android, weather news for Android, and a series of localization functions for users in China, such as SMS, MMS and contact sorting. At the same time, Lin Bin also set up and led Google China's music search R&D team, Chrome compatible R&D team, video search R&D team, desktop software R&D team and onebox R&D team. Led the team to release a series of onebox products, such as Google genuine music search products, Chrome compatibility test platform, Google video search, Google Pinyin input method, Google toolbar, Google Linux desktop, Google comprehensive search including music, Olympics, video news, weather financial stocks and blessing SMS.
After Kai-Fu Lee left Google, Lin Bin also officially left Google on 20101016, revealing the identity of Xiaomi Technology's president.
Jianli Xiaomi
20 10, Lei Jun, the former senior director of Beijing Center (responsible for designing Ming series mobile phones), Liu De, the former director of industrial design department of University of Science and Technology Beijing, Li Wanqiang, the former general manager of Jinshan Company, KK Wong, the former development director of Microsoft China Engineering Institute, and Hongfeng, the former senior product manager of Google China, jointly founded Xiaomi Technology. As the president, Lin Bin is responsible for the daily operation of the company's personnel, administration, legal affairs and finance, as well as the strategic cooperation of important partners.
20 14 1 1, Lin Bin was in charge of Xiaomi's business and was fully responsible for Xiaomi's marketing and sales. On April 6th, 20 15, Lin Bin led the Xiaomi team to sell 2 1 10000 mobile phones in 12 hours, which set the Guinness World Record of "the most mobile phones sold by a single online platform in 24 hours".