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Sahara AI's investors · 13
Aegis Ventuessince 2024Alumni VenturesManchester · $100K – $10M checks · since 2024Basecamp FundManchester · $100K – $10M checks · since 2024Binance LabsMalta · $100K – $5M checks · since 2024Coho DeeptechSan Francisco · since 2024GeekCartelsince 2024MatrixSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checks · since 2024Nomad Capitalsince 2024Pantera CapitalSan Francisco · $5M – $100M checks · since 2024Polychain CapitalSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checks · since 2024Samsung NextSan Jose · $100K – $5M checks · since 2024SCB 10XBangkok · $1.2M – $100M checks · since 2024Sequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks · since 2024
Co-founders at Sahara AI
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Tianyu ZhouDirector
Experience
- Sahara AICo-Founder and CEOcurrent2023 — present
- University of Southern CaliforniaAssociate Professorcurrent2023 — presentLos Angeles, CA
- University of Southern CaliforniaViterbi Early Career Chaircurrent2023 — presentLos Angeles, California, United States
- University of Southern CaliforniaAssistant Professor of Computer Science2017 — 2023Greater Los Angeles Area
- Information Sciences InstituteResearch Team Leadercurrent2018 — present
- ACM SIGKDD & Annual KDD ConferenceInformation Directorcurrent2018 — present
- The Intelligence and Knowledge Discovery (INK) LabDirectorcurrent2017 — presenthttp://inklab.usc.edu/
- Allen Institute for AI (AI2)Visiting Research Scientist2022 — 2024
- Snap Inc.Data Science Advisor2018 — 2019
- ForbesForbes' Asia 30 Under 302019
- Stanford UniversityVisiting Researcher2017 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
- PinterestSoftware Engineer Intern2016San Francisco City
- U.S. Army Research LaboratoryVisiting Researcher2016Adelphi, MD
- MicrosoftResearch Intern2014 — 2015
- StylePuzzleCo-founder2013 — 2014Champaign, IL
- Microsoft Research AsiaSoftware Engineer Intern2011 — 2012Beijing City, China
Skills & more
Data Mining36Machine Learning27C++15Computer Vision10C8Algorithms6Artificial Intelligence4Python6Databases3Java3Information Retrieval1Text Mining1
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C#Natural Language ProcessingHadoopHiveGitLanguages Chinese · English
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- Where did Xiang Ren go to school?
- Xiang Ren studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Ph.D., Computer Science); Zhejiang University (Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science).
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