Summary
Shanpeng Wang is a founder and machine learning researcher bridging applied AI and product-build in Los Angeles, with 11 years of experience spanning research labs and startups. Currently an MS in Electrical Engineering student at USC (and formerly a PhD candidate listed on GitHub), he has produced conference-grade NLP and data-mining work at Nankai, NTU and Lehigh while contributing practical systems like insurance customer clustering, garbage classification with image recognition, and optimized data-collection experiments. As an operator he founded two consumer-focused ventures—an online fruit shop with tens of thousands of transactions and a new LA food brand that reached $90k monthly sales early on—demonstrating rare fluency in product-market fit, growth, and technical delivery. He also shipped AI product work from PRDs to RAG chatbots and backend interfaces during internships, combining model-centric research skills with end-to-end product execution. Notably, his research introduced a cost-efficient fine-tuning method that improved answer selection accuracy, reflecting a consistent focus on making advanced ML methods practical and deployable.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering at University of Southern California
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Artificial Intelligence at Nankai University
English, Chinese