Summary
Jie Meng-gérard is a founder and CEO based in San Francisco with 15 years of experience building voice-controlled devices and voice-processing AI chipsets, including a consumer product launched via Indiegogo and refined through Y Combinator S16. He brings deep technical roots from a PhD in computer science focused on scheduling and optimization for large graphs, and earlier co-founded and led Whyd as Co-CEO. Jie blends research-grade algorithmic thinking with hands-on product development across hardware, embedded software, and machine learning for speech. Fluent in Chinese studies and history as well as advanced engineering, he leverages interdisciplinary insight to design language-first voice products for global markets.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Physics, Mathematics, Physics at Lycée Chaptal
YC S16, YC S16 at Y Combinator
BA, Chinese language & literature, BA, Chinese language & literature at Université Denis Diderot (Paris VII)
MS, Computer Science, Operations Research, MS, Computer Science, Operations Research at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
French, Chinese, English, German