Wesley Qian
VP, Engineering & Research at Osmo
United States
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Top SchoolWesley Qian is a VP of Engineering & Research with 11 years of experience building ML-driven products at the intersection of computational biology, neuroscience, and generative AI. He led foundational olfaction research at Google and spun that work into Osmo, where he progressed from founding research engineer to VP, inventing techniques that translate human language into fragrance formulas and even "teleported the smell of a plum." His background spans deep research (patents and publications), production ML systems, and commercial deals that made fragrance formulation cheaper and safer for enterprise customers. Wesley combines rigorous academic training—a PhD in Computer Science—with hands-on engineering across JAX, large-scale data collection, and ML stacks used in both biotech and consumer productization. He has a track record of turning niche scientific problems into defensible, venture-backed products and enjoys tracing product ideas back to surprising biology-informed insights.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science, Summa Cum Laude, Computer Science with Highest Honors & Neuroscience, Bachelor of Science, Summa Cum Laude, Computer Science with Highest Honors & Neuroscience at Brandeis University
Chinese, Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
biology10
quantum-chemistry9
drug-discovery9
tensorflow9
discovery9
deep-learning9
chemistry9
react9
science8
affinity8
extraction7
prediction6
transformer-models6
keras6
unsupervised-learning6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
WesleyyC/Tic-Tac-Toe
Dec 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 19 pushes, 8 comments in 1 year 1 month
WesleyyC/Image-Editor
Aug 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:35 commits, 5 pushes in 7 months
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