Kuang Chen
Co-Founder at Playworks
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolKuang Chen is a founder and data/ML PhD who has spent 18 years building AI-driven products that democratize healthcare and data access, most recently as Co-Founder of Antara Health in Lisbon. He led Captricity from research roots to acquisition by SS&C, creating handwriting-reading ML that improved data quality for low-resource health settings—work rooted in his Berkeley research and field experience in East Africa. Pragmatic and product-focused, he combines deep technical expertise in data systems with hands-on startup execution across founding, engineering, and customer-facing roles. An advisor and board member across health and social impact ventures, he shapes strategy for organizations scaling care in emerging markets. Outside work he’s a productivity nerd with a dry sense of humor—dad jokes included—bringing a people-centered lens to technical problem solving.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS PhD Computer Science, MS PhD Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBS BA Computer Science Comparative History of Ideas, BS BA Computer Science Comparative History of Ideas at University of Washington
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Github contributions (2)
jhellerstein/cs186-09
Feb 2009 - May 2009
Contributions:9 commits in 3 months
declarativitydotnet/p2
Nov 2007 - Feb 2008
Contributions:6 commits in 3 months
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