Zehan Wang
Founder & Investor
United Kingdom
Overview
Work Experience
Head of Cortex Applied Research
2020 - 2021
Eng lead for the machine learning research organisation at Twitter, overlooking a range of applied ML research at Twitter - ranging from recommender systems to user and content understanding, as well as fundamentals of how to do ML at scale (e.g. continuous learning, online learning, reinforcement learning, graph learning), and how best to apply that to the product.
Senior Manager, ML Software Engineering
2018 - 2021
Manager, ML Software Engineering
2016 - 2018
Magic Pony Technology is now part of Twitter!
X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.
Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.
Co-Founder & CTO
2014 - 2016
Magic Pony Technology is a research-led software company, working on applications of machine learning for visual processing and low-level vision problems. Acquired by Twitter in 2016.
Cohort Member
2014 - 2015
Entrepreneur First (EF) is a start-up pre-accelerator which selects purely on the basis of technical talent and provides an intensive six-month programme designed to test teams and ideas, and push them to their full potential.
PhD Student
2011 - 2014
Computing Research, Visual Information Processing, Biomedical Image Analysis Group Thesis title: Patch-based Segmentation with Spatial Context for Medical Image Analysis
Consultant
2010 - 2011
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
2009 - 2010
Taking a small group of first year computing students for tutorials in logic, discrete maths and reasoning about programs
Analyst
2009 - 2009
Industrial placement
DB Capital Ventures invests in early-stage and emerging growth businesses and is a venture capital firm based in New York.
Software Engineer
2008 - 2008
Internship