scale up language understanding

Aaron Li

Founder, CEO

Aaron was lead engineer in the founding team at Scaled Inference, an AI startup founded by early Google veterans, backed by top Silicon Valley investors and scientists. Before that, he was an engineer in core machine learning systems at Google Research, and Australia’s national lab NICTA.

He won multiple awards in machine learning, including the prestigious ACM SIGKDD 2014 Best Research Paper Award as a lead author. He received MSc in Language Technologies (Computer Science) from Carnegie Mellon University, and BSc (Adv) with First Class Honours at Australian National University with quadruple majors in Computer Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics. He started programming since the age of 7, and started mining Bitcoin since 2011.

A Beijing native, New Zealand citizen, and former resident of Australia, Aaron immigrated to United States and was granted Einstein Green Card in the US to create fundamental, disruptive technologies (recent talks).

Nina Wei

Founding Product Manager

Before joining Qokka, Nina was working on an AI-powered product at deeplearning.ai. Prior to that, she designed and launched multiple AI-powered products at Silicon Valley AI Lab in Baidu Research.

She holds a master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction and Design from University of Washington, and completed a BS in Applied Psychology while doing HCI research at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University and Chinese Academy of Sciences. she was granted patent for multiple innovative designs, and authored a diverse portfolio of publications ranging from blog articles on Medium by invitation from multiple journals, to scholarly articles in top venues such as IEEE Pervasive Computing and ACM Interactions.

Haolin Jiang

Consulting Software Engineer

Haolin has over 7 years of experience as a full stack engineer. He has been a core developer at Agile Digital in Canberra, Australia. responsible for design and implementation of many systems ranging from smart farming solutions for Grain Growers, one of Australia's largest and oldest agricultural organization, to VR / AR toolsets used by creative studios (such as Unbnd Group) to deliver next generation of shopping experience in some of the largest shopping malls in Australia. Haolin was also a key developer in multiple startups providing smart retail solutions, such as PotatOS and DataPOS.

Haolin holds a BSc (honors) in Information Technology from Australian National University, and is currently on leave from MSc in Software Engineering.