Ping Fu
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| Born | 1958 (age 58–59) Nanjing, China |
| Residence | Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | University of California, San Diego, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Alma mater | University of California, San Diego |
| Occupation | Vice President and Chief Entrepreneur Officer, 3D Systems |
| Employer | 3D Systems |
| Notable work | Bend, Not Break: A Life In Two Worlds |
| Board member of | Long Now Foundation National Advisory Council for Innovation and Entrepreneurship |
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Fù Píng |
Ping Fu (born 1958) is a Chinese-American entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of 3D software development company Geomagic, and was its chief executive officer until February 2013 when the company was acquired by 3D Systems Inc. As of March 2014[update], she is the Vice President and Chief Entrepreneur Officer at 3D Systems. Fu grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and moved to the United States in 1984. She co-founded Geomagic in 1997 with her then-husband Herbert Edelsbrunner, and has been recognized for her achievements with the company through a number of awards, including being named Inc. magazine's 2005 "Entrepreneur of the Year". In 2013, she published her memoir, Bend, Not Break, co-authored with MeiMei Fox.
Ping Fu was born in 1958 in Nanjing, China, where her father was a professor at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA). Fu spent her childhood and early adulthood in China. She grew up during the Cultural Revolution, during which she was separated from both her parents for several years. After the end of the Cultural Revolution, she attended the college that later became the Suzhou University studying Chinese literature. Fu has related in interviews and in her memoir that she chose to research China's one-child policy for her thesis and traveled to the countryside, where she found that infanticide of female infants was common, as was abortion, even late into pregnancy. Fu said that, after turning in her research, she believes it was passed to a newspaper editor who wrote an editorial on the infanticide of female children. Fu has stated that she was later briefly imprisoned by government officials and was told to leave the country. After this event, she left school, without graduating.
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