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Xiang Ren

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Founder at Sahara AI

Los Angeles, California, United States

FoundedSahara AI

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Anand IyerunlockedXiang: together at Saharaai (2023–2026)
×2Xiang: together at Saharaai
×3Xiang: together at Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
×6Xiang: together at Pinterest

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Sahara AI's investors · 16

Aegis Ventuessince 2024Alumni VenturesManchester · $100K – $10M checks · since 2024Basecamp FundManchester · $100K – $10M checks · since 2024Binance LabsMalta · $100K – $5M checks · since 2024Coho DeeptechSan Francisco · since 2024Differential VenturesNew York · $250K – $3M checks · since 2024GeekCartelsince 2024MatrixSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checks · since 2024Nomad Capitalsince 2024OIG Capital (Oracles Investment Group)since 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 2024Synapse VenturesLondon · since 2024

Co-founders at Sahara AI

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Tianyu ZhouDirector

Experience

  1. Sahara AICo-Founder and CEOcurrent2023 — present
  2. University of Southern CaliforniaAssociate Professorcurrent2023 — presentLos Angeles, CA
  3. University of Southern CaliforniaViterbi Early Career Chaircurrent2023 — presentLos Angeles, California, United States
  4. University of Southern CaliforniaAssistant Professor of Computer Science2017 — 2023Greater Los Angeles Area
  5. Information Sciences InstituteResearch Team Leadercurrent2018 — present
  6. ACM SIGKDD & Annual KDD ConferenceInformation Directorcurrent2018 — present
  7. The Intelligence and Knowledge Discovery (INK) LabDirectorcurrent2017 — presenthttp://inklab.usc.edu/
  8. Allen Institute for AI (AI2)Visiting Research Scientist2022 — 2024
  9. Snap Inc.Data Science Advisor2018 — 2019
  10. ForbesForbes' Asia 30 Under 302019
  11. Stanford UniversityVisiting Researcher2017 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
  12. PinterestSoftware Engineer Intern2016San Francisco City
  13. U.S. Army Research LaboratoryVisiting Researcher2016Adelphi, MD
  14. MicrosoftResearch Intern2014 — 2015
  15. StylePuzzleCo-founder2013 — 2014Champaign, IL
  16. Microsoft Research AsiaSoftware Engineer Intern2011 — 2012Beijing City, China

Skills & more

Data Mining36Machine Learning27C++15Computer Vision10C8Algorithms6Artificial Intelligence4Python6Databases3Java3Information Retrieval1Text Mining1
+5 moreC#Natural Language ProcessingHadoopHiveGit

Languages Chinese · English

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Who is Xiang Ren?
Director at Sahara AI
Where does Xiang Ren work?
Xiang Ren is Founder of Sahara AI.
What companies did Xiang Ren found?
Xiang Ren founded Sahara AI.
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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