Education & Professional Experience

Tao has studied at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business in Quantitative Finance and AI between 2017 and 2018, then at University of California, Berkeley in Nano-Engineering, then at State University of New York at Stony Brook in Mechanical Engineering, then at University of Science and Technology of China in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering.

Tao worked for Punchh, Inc. as Senior Manager in AI & Machine Learning, Scientist between Oct 2018 and Oct 2019, for Sentient Investment Management as Quantitative and AI Researcher between Mar 2018 and Sep 2018, for BlackRock as Researcher between Oct 2017 and Mar 2018, for Luminus Devices as Vice President of Research and Development between Dec 2012 and Mar 2017, for Bridgelux, Inc. as Product Development Manager - Tech R&D between May 2011 and Dec 2012, for Cree as Research Scientist between 2008 and 2011, for Intel Corporation as Intern Packaging Engineer between May 2006 and Nov 2006.

 Skills & Competences

Tao has the following skills : Product Development, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Program Management, Natural Language Understanding, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Quantitative Research, Agile Project Management, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Investment Management, Jenkins, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, Python, Start-ups, Databases, C++, Deep Learning, Linux.