Summary
Viola Cao is a founder and CEO with nine years of cross-industry experience building and operationalizing AI products across insurance, fintech, energy, and international organizations. Trained at NYU and with research experience at Stanford, she combines deep technical fluency in ML (TensorFlow, PyTorch), scalable data engineering (Spark, Hadoop, SQL), and model evaluation with hands-on product measurement work at Meta and Lemonade. She has led end-to-end initiatives from 0→1—shipping CV, NLP, recommendation, and generative-model solutions—while embedding guardrails, feedback loops, and robust evaluation as first-class features. Her duo-background in data science and finance, plus work across the US, UK, and China, gives her a pragmatic global perspective on risk-aware AI deployment. Recognized among Re·Work’s “30 Influential Women Advancing AI,” she now helps startups translate frontier-model capability into reliable, user-facing systems that balance trust, safety, and business impact.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Finance, Finance at The University of Manchester
Master of Science (MS) Data Science, Master of Science (MS) Data Science at NYU Center for Data Science
Research Assistant Statistics, Research Assistant Statistics at Stanford University
Chinese, English, French