Our team
Lifen Song
General Manager
Lifen is a co-founder of Blue Aspirations and serves as its general manager. With 20 years of management and product development experience in telecommunications, power substation monitoring, wind turbine predictive maintenance, and floating LiDAR systems, he’s used his deep technical expertise to ensure Blue Aspirations’ products demonstrate reliability and robustness even in harsh conditions. He is a current member of the IEC working group TC 88/PT 61400-50-4 on using floating LiDARs for wind measurements. He’s held several roles at Nokia Siemens Networks, including Scrum Master, R&D Manager, and Agile Coach during his earlier career. Lifen was also formerly the recipient of a bronze medal in the Chinese national-level Hope Cup math competition.
Lifen holds a B.E. in Software Engineering from Southeast University, and as a programmer with a lifelong commitment to learning - he is still pursuing a doctorate at Tsinghua University.
Barnabas Chen
CTO & Deputy General Manager
Barnabas is a co-founder of Blue Aspirations and brings his deep knowledge and experience to the titles of CTO and Deputy General Manager. Before founding Blue Aspirations, Barnabas worked at a tech company focused on product development and engineering services for the offshore wind industry. During his tenure with the company, he acted in various roles – including Hardware Engineer, System Engineer, Software Engineer, and Deputy Technical Director – and spearheaded the development of a safety-protecting controller for wind turbines. He also managed the development, optimization, and quality management of floating LiDAR systems and actively contributed to deployments in the Asia-Pacific region.
Barnabas holds a B.E. in Automation and an M.Sc. in Control Theory and Control Engineering from Zhejiang Sci-Tech University.
Klaus Qiu
Business Development Director
Klaus is a co-founder of Blue Aspirations and brings his knowledge in the design, manufacture, and operation of floating LiDARs to the role of Project Director previously. He changed his role to Business Development Director in 2022 to pursue new challenges and help the company grow. Before his work with Blue Aspirations, Klaus spent nearly 10 years in mechanical design. He previously worked as the Mechanical Design Director at a floating LiDAR manufacturer and has overseen 7 floating LiDAR deployments throughout Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi since 2016 - including the first two floating LiDARs deployed in China. At Blue Aspirations, he leverages his rich experience to sell products and services and deliver customer value.
Klaus holds a B.E. in Mechatronics from Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences in Germany.