Summary
Ye Chen is a technology leader and entrepreneur with eight years focused on AI and a 15+ year trajectory building large-scale adtech, recommender, and LLM platforms across top global companies. Currently CTO of Fliggy within Alibaba’s China E-commerce Business Group, he is building agentic services designed to make AI a daily, fingerprint-level utility. Previously he founded Tigerobo, which produced TigerBot and state-of-the-art models for finance, healthcare, and NEV sectors, and commercialized LLMs that outperformed major baselines on specialized medical tasks. His background spans senior R&D and product roles at Meituan, Microsoft, eBay Research Labs and Yahoo! Labs, where he delivered multi-billion RMB revenue growth and advanced search, ranking, and personalization systems. Based in Mountain View with a PhD in Information Systems from UW–Madison, Ye blends deep research rigor with founder-level execution and a hands-on coding passion that drives production-grade AI products.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Information Systems, Computer Sciences, PhD, Information Systems, Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison