Alex Zhao
Co-Founder at MAPS Canada
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Zhao is a co-founder and interdisciplinary technologist with a decade of experience building student-led networks, research initiatives, and product efforts at the intersection of psychedelics, mental health, and computational neuroscience. Trained in Computer & Information Science and Statistics at Penn and Wharton, he combines hands-on product and engineering experience (from healthcare startups to NLP internships) with leadership in organizations like the Intercollegiate Psychedelics Network, Penn Society for Psychedelic Science, and MAPS Canada. Alex has launched innovation projects—search engines for transcendent experience reports and organizational labs—and has contributed to academic research collaborations at Imperial College and QRI, demonstrating a rare blend of rigorous quantitative skill and curiosity-driven exploration of consciousness. Known for fostering interdisciplinary communities and scaling volunteer networks globally, he values transparency, intellectual openness, and collaborative co-creation.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Economics cum laude Concentration in Statistics, Bachelor of Science in Economics cum laude Concentration in Statistics at The Wharton SchoolInternational Bacculaureate (IB) Diploma, International Bacculaureate (IB) Diploma at Shanghai American SchoolInternational School of BeijingBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.S.) cum laude Computer & Information Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.S.) cum laude Computer & Information Science at University of Pennsylvania
Chinese, English
Github Skills (3)
python9
kubernetes9
spring1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alextzhao/psychedelicNLP
Nov 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:54 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
alextzhao/alextzhao.github.io
Oct 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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