Summary
Rick is a CEO and founder with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and over a decade of engineering leadership experience, having led large AI teams at Tencent before launching AhaaaMath to bring AI, visualization, and game design to elementary math education. At Tencent he built and scaled parallel machine-learning tooling and ad-quality systems, managing teams of 60+ engineers and delivering measurable improvements in CTR and ranking quality. He combines deep research expertise—authors of high-performance LDA and parallel ML systems—and practical product instincts, moving models from prototype to production at internet scale. Based in Shenzhen, he brings a rare blend of academic rigor, large-scale system design, and a passion for math and science history that informs his edtech vision. Notably, his early open-source work (MapReduce-Lite) and innovations in topic modeling underpin many industrial applications he later operationalized.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Peking University
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Beijing Information and Technology Institute
English, Japanese, Chinese