Forrest Bao
Co-Founder at A VC-backed stealth AI startup
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolForrest Bao is a multidisciplinary AI researcher and founder with 14 years of experience bridging NLP, reinforcement learning, EDA, and bio/med informatics. He co-founded a VC-backed stealth AI startup after leading machine learning at Vectara—where he built the industry-standard HHEM hallucination detector (4M+ downloads) and authored multiple benchmark papers and an O'Reilly RAG book chapter. Previously an assistant professor with NSF-funded research (including a CAREER award) and publications at ACL/NAACL/EMNLP/AAAI/DAC, he has translated academic inventions—like software-defined and AI-generated PCB tools—into startup-ready products. His medical signal work earned coverage in MIT Technology Review and Lancet Neurology, reflecting a rare blend of deep technical rigor and real-world impact. Based in Palo Alto, he pairs academic pedigree with hands-on product leadership and an eye for commercializing cross-disciplinary research.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ph. D. Computer Science, Ph. D. Computer Science at Texas Tech UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electronics and Information Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electronics and Information Engineering at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
English, Chinese, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (164)
python10
connectivity10
datasets10
deep-learning10
json-editor10
electrophysiology10
transformer10
nlp10
science10
shape-analysis10
tricks10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
tree-viewer10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
forrestbao/pyeeg
Nov 2013 - Dec 2021
Python + EEG/MEG = PyEEG
Contributions:23 commits, 14 PRs, 22 pushes in 8 years 1 month
pythonphysiologyeegseriesmeg
forrestbao/PythonClass
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:93 commits, 86 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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