Zichao Wang is a research scientist in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience applying AI to education, creativity, and scientific problems. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Rice University and spent his doctoral years publishing first-author work at top venues (ICLR, EMNLP, L@S, EDM, AIED) focused on AI for learning. At Adobe he now builds generative AI systems to boost human learning, productivity, and creativity, after research internships at Google, NVIDIA (ICLR spotlight), and Microsoft where he led educational data efforts. He also co-founded a Rice accelerator startup, giving him hands-on product, market, and rapid-prototyping experience beyond academia. His background in speech signal processing and cross-industry research internships gives him a rare blend of theoretical rigor and applied systems intuition.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering at Rice University
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