Qingchen Wang is a founder and machine learning leader with 11 years of experience building AI products and businesses, currently scaling Asapi.ai to bring machine learning to every business. He co-founded and served as Chief Scientist of Ophelos, an AI-native debt collection startup that achieved a successful exit in 2023, and has since advised early-stage AI companies like Ranger AI. Qingchen pairs deep academic credentials—a PhD in Machine Learning—with hands-on applied science roles at Opendoor, Abacus.AI, and Turing, and is a rare Kaggle Grandmaster with consistent top finishes across high-profile competitions. His expertise centers on NLP, personalization, reinforcement learning, and production ML systems for marketing, fintech, and e‑commerce. He’s comfortable moving from research to production, having led hiring and cross-functional teams and shipped end-to-end ML solutions for large enterprise clients. Based in the NYC area, he blends startup grit with rigorous research training and a track record of turning competition-grade models into commercial products.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Machine Learning at University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School
Master’s Degree, Business Administration, Master’s Degree, Business Administration at INSEAD
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Biology, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Biology at The University of British Columbia
A TensorFlow Implementation of the Transformer for machine translation.
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