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Chi Zhang

Cofounder, CEO

Product Manager @ Databricks (leading key data engineering products)

Founding member, ML & Product @ dotData (one of the top AutoML platforms)

AI Researcher @ Gilead Science (Cancer diagnosis)

Ph.D. in ML @ UC Berkeley (researches on explainable AI with causality)

Scott Shi

Cofounder, CTO

Founder of Uber Safety Data, Eng Committee Chair @ Uber (also built Uber’s “Scale AI”)

Founding engineer, Tech Lead @ Salesforce Einstein AI (patented dataflow orchestrators)

Cofounder & CTO @ RisingWave (Streaming database, $40M+ raised)

Engineer @ Electronic Arts; M.S. in CS @ UIUC

Lei Lei

VP, Head of BD & Strategy

Head of BD @ Near Foundation

Head of Institutional Real Money Sales @ BlockFi

Head of Earn @ AscendEX (CEX)

10+ yrs on Wall Street (e.g., Deutsche Bank)

MBA @ Harvard; B.S. in Econ @ MIT

Yusuke Muraoka

Principal AI Engineer

Co-Founder, Principal AI Scientist @ dotData (AutoML)

Senior Researcher @ NEC (publications at top AI/ML conferences such as NeurIPS & ICML)

Holds 30+ AI patents on NLP & feature engineering

M.S. in CS @ University of Tokyo

Yijing Shi

Head of Business Operations

Strategy @ VMWare

Engagement Manager @ Mckinsey

Research @ Exxon

PhD at @ UVA

M.S. in Materials Engineering @ Illinois Tech

Pranav Asoori

BD & Strategy Associate

BD & Strategy @ PayPal (PYUSD)

BD @ NEAR Foundation

M.S. in Analytics @ USC

B.S in Business/Finance @ USC

Aiden Witeck

AI Engineer

Software engineer @ J.P Morgan

ML Research @ Harvard

B.S.E in Operations Research & Financial Engineering @ Princeton

Kiana Afshar

Product Manager

Product @ CreatorDAO

Venture Fellow @ Unshackled Ventures

Product @ NOCD

B.S in Data Science @ U.C Berkeley

Jiang Tao

Software Engineer

Principal Engineer @ Shopee

Senior Architect @ Kuaishou Technology

Head of Infrastructure @ Xiaohongshu

Sr. Software Engineer @ Alibaba Group

M.S. in Computer Science @ Tsinghua University

B.S in Electronic Engineering @ Beijing Institute of Technology

Chengcheng Pei

Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer @ Uber

Software Engineer (Data Infra) @ Postmates

Software Engineer (MTS1) @ eBay

M.S @ University of Waterloo

Spring Zhang

Data Scientist

Top 3 dune data wizard

Development Lead @ TurboSquid (shutterstock)

BASc in Computer Applied Science

Longhao S

Software Engineer

Head of Engineering @ Treelabs

Software engineer @ Wish, Uber & VMware

M.S. in Computer Science @ Rutgers