Summary
Andy Hsieh is a founder and engineering leader with 10+ years building personalization and ML-driven systems, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO of Miso Technologies in Redwood City. He blends deep academic research—UCLA PhD and Cornell Tech postdoc work that produced state-of-the-art recommender models and dramatic retrieval speedups—with hands-on backend engineering to democratize LLMs for small-data settings. His research has powered immersive recommendation, context-aware topic modeling, and scalable mobile health platforms, and includes industry-facing work at Microsoft Research on large-scale genome variant calling. Known for turning novel algorithms into reusable software (OpenRec, LibRec, CollMetric) and shipping production-ready systems, he pairs rigorous evaluation with product-minded delivery.
10 years of coding experience