Master Fan graduated from Nankai University in 1984 and received a PhD in Engineering from CAS in 1990. He joined the Institute of Computing Technology of CAS in 1990 and served as project team leader, deputy chief engineer of the Intelligence Center, deputy director of the Computing Institute, executive vice president of Dawning Corporation, and vice president of Lenovo Research Institute consecutively. Since 2006, he has served as the dean of Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIAT). Since 2018, he has been the director of the Preparatory Office of the university. In 2021, he was elected as an academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences.