Experience

Encred Inc.

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO

  • Feb 2023 - 11 months

  San Francisco Bay Area



Pacdora

• Hong Kong
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Advisor

  • Dec 2021 - 2 years 1 month

  Shanghai, China



Himalaya

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO

  • Dec 2018 - Aug 2021

  San Francisco Bay Area



Otto Radio, Inc.

• United States
• Software Development

• Co-Founder & CTO

  • 2014 - Dec 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area Otto Radio works like Pandora for Podcasts & News. You can listen to personalized content on Otto, and stay informed and entertained no matter if you are driving, running or cooking. Otto's engine is built on state-of-the-art content mining and user modeling algorithms. By analyzing the semantics of the content and learns your interests as you use Otto, it helps you discover amazing high-quality podcasts and tailored breaking news.



Emory University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Ph.D.

  • Sep 2009 - Sep 2014

  Greater Atlanta Area My Ph.D. research focused on modeling temporal dynamics in user generated content. I developed several algorithms and methods to learn how topics and sentiment change in social media over time, and predict how they would be in the future.



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Research Intern

  • Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

  I developed a model that learns from users' search behavior on both mobile and desktop, and predicts if the user will continue his search after he switches devices. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2433484 https://www.google.com/patents/US20140143196

• Research Intern

  • Jun 2011 - Aug 2011

  I improved the accuracy of click-based measures (e.g., click-though rate) for search logs collected by IE. With a more robust click detection algorithm, Bing can more accurately compare its performance against Google and other search engines.



eBay Inc

• United States
• Retail

• Intern

  • Jun 2010 - Aug 2010

  I developed an algorithm to classify ambiguous queries in terms of item names in ebay inventory.