Gao Kun was born in Shanghai, 1933. His father was a lawyer and lived in the French Concession. He spent his primary school days in Shanghai. As a child, Gao Kun was most interested in chemistry. He used to make his own fire extinguishers and fireworks? Fireworks and photographic paper. The most dangerous thing is homemade bombs? What happened afterwards? He was fascinated by radio again, and he successfully installed five or six vacuum tube radios at an early age.

1948, their family moved to Hong Kong. Gao Kun first studied at St. Joseph's College and was later admitted to the University of Hong Kong. But at that time, Gao Kun was determined to study electrical engineering, and HKU didn't have this major, so he went to London University. After graduation, he joined the British International Telephone and Telegraph Company? ITT, an engineer, was hired as a researcher in the research room for his outstanding performance, and at the same time, he studied for a doctoral degree at the University of London, graduating from 1967.