Fei Gao

Fei Gao (高飞) is the founder and CEO of DiffRobotics (微分智飞), an aerial-robotics startup aiming to build a general-purpose "embodied brain" for flying terminals — he coined the "aerial embodied intelligence" (飞行具身) direction the company is built around . He's also a tenured associate professor and PhD advisor at Zhejiang University's College of Control Science and Engineering, a frequent contributor to top journals like *Science Robotics* and TRO, and was named among the global top 2% of scientists for 2023–2024 — though as 5Y Capital put it, these days he's "more of a geek reshaping the skies" than an academic collecting titles . His team's work has appeared on the cover of *Science Robotics* multiple times, placing it at the international frontier of flight intelligence, and the company has raised multiple rounds — Pre-A through A2 — since 2025 .