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About
Tsung-Hsien (Shawn) Wen is co-founder and CTO of PolyAI, a London-based company developing a platform for deploying spoken dialogue systems using NLP and machine learning. He holds a PhD from the Dialogue Systems group at the University of Cambridge, where he was supervised by Professor Steve Young, and his research addresses language generation and end-to-end dialogue modelling for task-oriented systems. Before PolyAI, he worked as a research consultant at IPSoft's Amelia team and a research intern at Google Brain, and he received best paper awards at EMNLP 2015 and SigDial 2015.
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Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer at PolyAI
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PolyAI's investors · 16
Air Street CapitalSt. Peter Port · $500K – $10M checksAmadeus Capital PartnersLondon · $50K – $12.7M checks · since 2019British Business BankSheffield · since 2025Citi VenturesNew York · since 2025Entrepreneur FirstBengaluru · $1M – $7M checks · since 2019GeorgianToronto, Ontario · $25M – $100M checks · since 2025HedosophiaLondon · since 2025Khosla VenturesMenlo Park · $5K – $50M checks · since 2025NVenturesSanta ClaraNVenturesSingapore · $25K – $2.5M checksNVIDIASanta Clara · since 2025Passion CapitalLondon · since 2019Point72 VenturesNew York · $1M – $75M checks · since 2019PROOFArlingtonSands Capital VenturesArlington · $10M – $30M checks · since 2019Transpose Platform ManagementSan Francisco
Co-founders at PolyAI
CTO at PolyAI
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PolyAI's investors · 16
Air Street CapitalSt. Peter Port · $500K – $10M checksAmadeus Capital PartnersLondon · $50K – $12.7M checks · since 2019British Business BankSheffield · since 2025Citi VenturesNew York · since 2025Entrepreneur FirstBengaluru · $1M – $7M checks · since 2019GeorgianToronto, Ontario · $25M – $100M checks · since 2025HedosophiaLondon · since 2025Khosla VenturesMenlo Park · $5K – $50M checks · since 2025NVenturesSanta ClaraNVenturesSingapore · $25K – $2.5M checksNVIDIASanta Clara · since 2025Passion CapitalLondon · since 2019Point72 VenturesNew York · $1M – $75M checks · since 2019PROOFArlingtonSands Capital VenturesArlington · $10M – $30M checks · since 2019Transpose Platform ManagementSan Francisco
Co-founders at PolyAI
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Nikola MrkšićCo-founder & CEO
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Shawn WenCo-founder & Chief Technology Officer
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Eddy SuCo-founder & SVP Engineering
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Pei-Hao SuCofounder
Experience
- PolyAICTO and Co-Foundercurrent2017 — presentLondon, United Kingdom
- Entrepreneur FirstCohort Member2017 — 2018London, United Kingdom
- GoogleResearcher2017Mountain View, CA, USA
- IPsoftResearch Consultant2016 — 2017Cambridge, United Kingdom
- StorySense ComputingAlgorithm Developer Intern2012 — 2013Taipei City, Taiwan
- StorySense ComputingMobile Developer Intern2011 — 2012Taipei City, Taiwan
- National Taiwan UniversityTeaching Asistant2011 — 2013Taipei City, Taiwan
Skills & more
Matlab25Java19Python25Research11Algorithms39Machine Learning37Data Mining5Artificial Intelligence10C++16Natural Language Processing35Speech Recognition8Computational Linguistics1
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Text ClassificationSpeech ProcessingData AnalysisComputer ScienceCLaTeXProgrammingLanguages Chinese · English
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Shawn Wen?
- Tsung-Hsien (Shawn) Wen is co-founder and CTO of PolyAI, a London-based company developing a platform for deploying spoken dialogue systems using NLP and machine learning. He holds a PhD from the Dialogue Systems group at the University of Cambridge, where he was supervised by Professor Steve Young, and his research addresses language generation and end-to-end dialogue modelling for task-oriented systems. Before PolyAI, he worked as a research consultant at IPSoft's Amelia team and a research intern at Google Brain, and he received best paper awards at EMNLP 2015 and SigDial 2015.
- Where does Shawn Wen work?
- Shawn Wen is Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer of PolyAI.
- What companies did Shawn Wen found?
- Shawn Wen founded PolyAI.
- Where did Shawn Wen go to school?
- Shawn Wen studied at University of Cambridge (Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Engineering); National Taiwan University (Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering); National Taiwan University (Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering).
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Kanu GulatiInvestor at Khosla VenturesBruce ArmstrongInvestor at Khosla VenturesRyan LongfieldPresident, PolyAI at Stage 2 CapitalEmily WalshLead Investor at GeorgianVibhor RastogiDirector at Citi VenturesSteve CrossanVenture Partner at firstminute capital
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