Shaomei Wu
Founder And CEO at AImpower.org
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShaomei Wu is a founder and CEO with 14 years of experience building human-centered AI and inclusive technology, currently leading AImpower.org to co-create empowering tech with marginalized communities. She has a strong research and engineering background from Cornell, UC Santa Barbara, and Tsinghua, and has held senior research and engineering roles at Facebook/Instagram where she founded teams focused on AI for inclusion and algorithmic equity. Shaomei combines rigorous ML and product practice—designing models for platform dynamics—with community-driven design methods to surface and mitigate structural bias in emerging technologies. Her work uniquely blends nonprofit leadership, academic rigor, and platform-scale engineering to translate lived experiences into practical, enjoyable, and accessible technical experiences. Based in Menlo Park, she is also an active volunteer technologist who has served as CTO for MySpeech and routinely recruits interdisciplinary collaborators for mission-driven projects.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Information Science, Ph.D, Information Science at Cornell UniversityM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraB.S, Computer Science, B.S, Computer Science at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (4)
searchable10
finder9
python7
database7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Shaomei/shaomei.github.io
Mar 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:77 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
aimpowered/aimpowered.github.io
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:57 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 5 months
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