Summary
Han Su is a founder and CEO with nine years of experience building decentralized social platforms and AI-driven products that prioritize user-owned information. Based in Cambridge, MA, he leads Privoce, an open-source startup delivering a self-hosted, Matrix-interoperable chat-social server and personal AI agents that run on users' clouds. His background blends computer science and media studies—his MIT thesis on computational structuralism frames his product work around making information capital broadly accessible. He has hands-on experience from research roles at MIT and Tencent to founding earlier startups like Webrow.se, and he has conducted fieldwork across Africa, China, the Middle East and South America. Beyond engineering, he applies insights from cultural capital and information-density research to product design, including patents from his Tencent internship. Fluent in building cross-protocol interoperability (Matrix, SoLiD) and privacy-forward AI tooling, he combines academic rigor with pragmatic startup execution.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
New York University Abu Dhabi
Master of Science - MS Research Assistant Comparative Media Studies, Master of Science - MS Research Assistant Comparative Media Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Interactive Media Arts., Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Interactive Media Arts. at New York University
Bachelor's degree Computer Science Interactive Media Arts, Bachelor's degree Computer Science Interactive Media Arts at NYU Shanghai
Shanghainese, Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili, Spanish, Chinese, englsih, Chinese