Qingchen Wang
Founder & CEO at Asapi.ai
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolQingchen Wang is a founder and machine learning leader with 11 years of experience building AI products and businesses, currently scaling Asapi.ai to bring machine learning to every business. He co-founded and served as Chief Scientist of Ophelos, an AI-native debt collection startup that achieved a successful exit in 2023, and has since advised early-stage AI companies like Ranger AI. Qingchen pairs deep academic credentials—a PhD in Machine Learning—with hands-on applied science roles at Opendoor, Abacus.AI, and Turing, and is a rare Kaggle Grandmaster with consistent top finishes across high-profile competitions. His expertise centers on NLP, personalization, reinforcement learning, and production ML systems for marketing, fintech, and e‑commerce. He’s comfortable moving from research to production, having led hiring and cross-functional teams and shipped end-to-end ML solutions for large enterprise clients. Based in the NYC area, he blends startup grit with rigorous research training and a track record of turning competition-grade models into commercial products.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Machine Learning at University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business SchoolMaster’s Degree, Business Administration, Master’s Degree, Business Administration at INSEADBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Biology, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Biology at The University of British ColumbiaUniversity College London
mandarin chinese - fluent, english - native
Github Skills (47)
pytorch10
convolutional-neural-networks10
python10
word-embeddings10
machine-learning10
word-segmentation10
multimodal10
ml10
llm10
audio10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
natural-language-processing10
neural-network10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chqiwang/transformer
Jul 2017 - Aug 2018
A TensorFlow Implementation of the Transformer for machine translation.
Contributions:50 commits, 46 pushes in 1 year 1 month
machine-translationtensorflow
chqiwang/convseg
Apr 2017 - May 2022
Convolutional neural network and word embeddings for Chinese word segmentation
Contributions:33 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
convolutional-neural-networksword-embeddingsword-segmentation
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