Summary
Benjamin Chan is a Co-Founder and Chief Engineer blending 11 years of hands-on engineering with frontier AI/ML research and startup building from Los Angeles. He currently leads engineering at Xyla Engineering while contributing to research and applied projects across organizations including Northrop Grumman, Project Leo, and FIRST as an AI/ML lead for an FRC team. His background spans industry research internships at Google, Boeing, and Haylon, pairing production-minded data science with creative Houdini FX/technical direction skills noted on his GitHub. Comfortable moving between low-level modeling and product delivery, Benjamin is known for bridging academic research with practical systems that scale in real-world aerospace and robotics contexts. An early adopter of cross-discipline workflows, he brings an unusual mix of visual effects tooling experience and rigorous ML research to startup engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary Student Program (Graduate) Machine Learning, Secondary Student Program (Graduate) Machine Learning at Harvard University
Bachelor of Science Statistics & Machine Learning, Bachelor of Science Statistics & Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese