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Shawn: together at National Taiwan University
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 Poly
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Poly's investors · 12
Air Street CapitalSt. Peter Port · $500K – $10M checksAmadeus Capital PartnersLondon · $50K – $12.7M checksEntrepreneur FirstBengaluru · $1M – $7M checksGeorgianToronto, Ontario · $25M – $100M checksHedosophiaLondonKhosla VenturesMenlo Park · $5K – $50M checksNVenturesSanta ClaraNVenturesSingapore · $25K – $2.5M checksNVIDIASanta Clara · since 2025Passion CapitalLondonPoint72 VenturesNew York · $1M – $75M checksPROOFArlington
Co-founders at Poly
CTO at Poly
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Poly's investors · 12
Air Street CapitalSt. Peter Port · $500K – $10M checksAmadeus Capital PartnersLondon · $50K – $12.7M checksEntrepreneur FirstBengaluru · $1M – $7M checksGeorgianToronto, Ontario · $25M – $100M checksHedosophiaLondonKhosla VenturesMenlo Park · $5K – $50M checksNVenturesSanta ClaraNVenturesSingapore · $25K – $2.5M checksNVIDIASanta Clara · since 2025Passion CapitalLondonPoint72 VenturesNew York · $1M – $75M checksPROOFArlington
Co-founders at Poly
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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 Poly.
- What companies did Shawn Wen found?
- Shawn Wen founded Poly.
- 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).
Founder mafias
Entrepreneur First mafia885
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
Reid HoffmanBoard MemberFounded LinkedIn +2Matthew WilsonFounder In ResidenceFounded Veratrak +2Rashid MansoorEntrepreneur, Inaugural CohortFounded HADEAN +2Eugene CheahEntrepreneur First 2017Founded Recursal AI, Inc. +2Steven RenwickCohort memberFounded Tilores +2Ruban KanapathippillaiEntrepreneur First 2024Founded Iterate AI +1
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University of Cambridge mafia588
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
Stewart ButterfieldMPhilFounded Flickr +1Demis HassabisBAFounded Google Deepmind +2C. Giovanni TraversoMBFounded Teal Bio +4Inaki BerenguerPhDFounded InfiniteWatch +2Harish AgarwalMaster of Philosophy - MPhilFounded Nori +2Dušan DuffekPostgraduate Diploma in EntrepreneurshipFounded 0100Ventures +2
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National Taiwan University mafia47
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
Lydia HanFounded ModernLoop +1Kytu LinBachelor of Science (BS)Founded Dcard +1CL KaoBSFounded Recce +1David TsengMaster's degreeFounded Lootex GameFi +1Jonathan HoAdvanced Chinese StudiesFounded Allium BioJerry ChenInstitute of Applied MechanicsFounded Digital
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Same school
Also attended University of Cambridge1,413
Stewart ButterfieldCo-founder of Slack and FlickrDemis HassabisCo-founder & CEO of Google DeepMindNiko BonatsosFounder and Managing Partner of VerdictGeorgia StevensonInvestor at Index VenturesHannah SealInvestor at Index VenturesLeah von SiemensPartner at Manta Ray Ventures
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Also attended National Taiwan University128
Giorgio PastariniSenior Associate at P101 VenturesSongkun ParkDirector / Investment Team at Crit VenturesJerry YangGeneral Partner at HCVCKent MadsenFounding Managing Partner Emeritus & Venture Partner at EPIC VENTURESYannick RitschelInvestor at Backbone VenturesChristian GubaInvestor at Extantia Capital
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Shared employers
Also worked at PolyAI13
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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Also worked at Entrepreneur First715
Reid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockToby CoppelCo-founder and Partner at Mosaic VenturesBenedict EvansWrites a weekly technology newsletter read by close to 200,000 peoplePeterDeep Tech Investment Lead at Hummingbird VenturesAniTalent Team at Hummingbird VenturesIsabel FoxHead of Investor Relations at Hoxton Ventures
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Also worked at Google2,000
Kai-Fu LeeChairman of Sinovation Ventures and CEO of 01.AIBrian SingermanCo-founder of GPx; Partner Emeritus at Founders FundJess LeePartner and Chief Product Officer at Sequoia CapitalHunter WalkCo-founder & Partner at HomebrewAydin SenkutFounder & Managing Partner at FelicisLaela SturdyManaging Partner at CapitalG
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