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Dr. Aiden
Chaoyang He

AI Scientist, Entrepreneur, and Full-stack Engineer. Co-founder & CEO of Teamily AI, TensorOpera AI (FedML), and ChainOpera AI. PhD from USC. Former Senior SWE & Manager at Tencent. Self-described “lifelong learner” (read: perpetually sleep-deprived).

/* currently: training LLMs to laugh at my jokes */
Dr. Aiden Chaoyang He
(that’s him, debugging reality)
// whoami

The short version (he has too many titles to fit on a business card)

AI Scientist by training, Entrepreneur by caffeine, Full-stack Engineer by - well, full-stack engineers don’t sleep, so that checks out. Aiden holds a PhD in Computer Science from USC, where he presumably learned how to say “it compiles on my machine” in three languages.

Before founding three AI companies (he’s collecting them like Pokémon), he was a Senior Software Engineer and Team Manager at Tencent. These days he spends his time investing in AI, Blockchain, Robotics, and Quantum Computing - plus a surprisingly large portion of his budget on espresso equipment and mechanical keyboards.

// 24_7_schedule

Training models vs. training for marathons (maybe?)

😴
06:00

Alarm snoozed. Again. (x5)

☕
07:00

Critical coffee intake. Skim arXiv abstracts (understand ~30%)

🎯
08:00

Standup meeting. Nod confidently. Ask about 'synergies'.

🧠
09:00

"Deep work" (scrolling Twitter for AI news)

🤖
10:00

Training models. Mostly my patience with PyTorch version mismatches.

🍜
12:00

Lunch. Scale-up portion sizes (research purposes).

📞
13:00

Investor calls. Translate 'blockchain-enabled synergy' to English.

📝
15:00

Code review. Add semicolons. Remove semicolons. Add them back.

🏃
17:00

"Marathon training" (walked to the kitchen and back. Twice.)

🍕
19:00

Dinner + binge-reading papers I'll pretend to have read later.

💻
21:00

"Late night coding" (debugging a CSS flexbox issue for 3 hours)

🛌
00:00

"Sleep is for the weak." Falls asleep in 47 seconds.

// career

Real achievements (with zero exaggeration, maybe 10%)

Co-founder & CEOTeamily AI

Present

His latest venture. Third time's the charm. (Fourth if you count that lemonade stand in 1998.)

Co-founder & CEOChainOpera AI

Present

Decentralized AI. The blockchain part means every inference costs at least 47 confirmations.

Co-founder & CEOTensorOpera AI / FedML

2020 - Present

Federated learning: training models on your data without looking. Like a privacy-respecting Peeping Tom.

Senior SWE & Team ManagerTencent

2014 - 2016

Managed a team. Learned that meetings are where productivity goes to die.

PhD, Computer ScienceUSC

2014 - Los Angeles, CA

Dissertation: distributed systems. AKA 'how to make many computers fail in new and exciting ways.'

// phd

Computer Systems or Crying Softly?

PhD in CS

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. Specialization: making machines learn so he doesn’t have to. Dissertation topic involved distributed systems, which is a fancy way of saying “my code runs on many computers and crashes on all of them simultaneously.”

✓ Graduated (mostly)✓ Can spell 'backpropagation'✓ Published papers✓ Owns a graduation robe
// portfolio

Things I invest in besides Quantum Computing (mostly coffee and gadgets)

AI CompaniesInvesting in the future. Also in the present. Basically anywhere there's a neural net.
BlockchainDecentralized everything. Still figuring out what problem #47 solves.
RoboticsCool robots that do cool things. (Not yet cool enough to make my bed.)
Quantum ComputingIn 10 years, this will be huge. Right now it's just very expensive science.
CoffeeEspresso machine collection: 4. Daily output: dangerous amounts of caffeine.
GadgetsOwns 3 laptops, 2 monitors, 1 smart fridge that judges his midnight snacking.
// hobbies

Things he does when he's not founding companies

Debugging LifeApplying console.log() to personal problems. So far the output is 'undefined'.
proficiency: 87%
Training LLMs to LaughFine-tuning models to find him funny. Current success rate: 0.03%. (But the models are very polite about it.)
proficiency: 12%
Scale-up EverythingApplies startup scaling principles to breakfast, workouts, and procrastination.
proficiency: 63%
Running (Maybe)Has a marathon on his bucket list. The bucket is made of 'I'll do it next year.'
proficiency: 41%
Quantum ReadingReads quantum computing papers. Understands approximately every 10th word. Nods thoughtfully.
proficiency: 18%
Professional NappingHas achieved master-level power naps. Can fall asleep anywhere: planes, meetings, mid-sentence.
proficiency: 94%
// easter_eggs

Hidden features (not really hidden)

Found the easter egg!

You found the secret section. As a reward, here’s a button that absolutely does deploy you to nap. Science says CEOs need 8 hours. Aiden runs on 4 and espresso. Click at your own risk.

// contact

Find him on the internet (he's probably online right now)

Twitter / X@chaoyang_heLinkedIn/in/chaoyangheGitHub@chaoyangheEmailcontact@chaoyanghe.com