Zack Li
Cofounder & CTO at Nexa AI
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolZack Li is a cofounder and CTO with 7 years of experience building on-device multimodal AI systems and developer tooling from Palo Alto. He leads engineering at Nexa AI, where he designed the Nexa SDK and created the Octopus family of functional token and planner models for on-device inference. Previously he shipped on-device NLP and spatial models at Google and Amazon Lab126, earning top performance recognition and presenting on efficient ML at Amazon’s Intent conference. A Stanford-educated operations research alum with deep research and startup accelerator experience, he blends product-minded engineering with academic rigor. Outside product work, he cultivates founder networks through StartX and the Chinese Entrepreneurs Organization, signaling a rare mix of technical depth and community leadership.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Operation Research, Master's degree Operation Research at Stanford University School of EngineeringBachelor's degree Engineering, Bachelor's degree Engineering at Tongji University
English
Github Skills (58)
transformers10
language-model10
lists10
whisper10
harmony10
unicorns10
stable-diffusion10
llm10
audio10
sdk10
asr10
edge-computing10
copilot9
agent8
android8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
zhiyuan8/audio_features_analysis
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:35 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
zhiyuan8/study-notes
Dec 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:269 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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