Summary
Sicong Zhao is a founder and data scientist with a decade of experience applying deep learning, statistical modeling, and design thinking to product-led AI. He launched and exited a freelancer platform to Aibee, then led AI product efforts at Aibee and Credit Suisse before founding Learniverse, an AI-driven personalized education startup. His background blends hands-on modeling (GANs for visual product generation at Etsy) with product management at Baidu Research, where his consumer AI work reached millions of users. He combines cross-functional leadership with rigorous analytics to turn ambiguous problems into deployable products that improve daily user experience. Sicong’s work sits at the intersection of research, product, and business strategy, and he’s equally likely to sketch a user flow as to tune a model’s loss function. Outside work he channels the same competitive drive on recreational basketball courts in Seattle.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at Duke University
Build Sprint 2021, Build Sprint 2021 at Y Combinator
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
English, Chinese