About MAI | The Team Behind AI Google Ads Agents

# MAI PEOPLE

Cutting-edge AI. Unreplaceable humans.

50+
Combined years in performance marketing

$100M+
In ad spend managed collectively

80%
of our team with advanced degrees (MS or above), including 8 PhDs

14
Data Scientists & ML researchers

#mai-agents

The great equalizer

The internet was supposed to be the great equalizer, but the sheer complexity of modern performance marketing has created a new kind of barrier—not just to entry, but to sustained relevance. Whether you are a local shop or a global enterprise, we build #mai-agents to simplify that complexity and return agency to the creator. Our tech provides the operational horsepower to cut through the technical noise, allowing you to focus on building genuine connections and getting back to the craft of your business.

#mai-people

The human connection

There's a misconception that AI means we can stop worrying about the "human element." We believe the opposite. When you use MAI, you shouldn't just feel like you bought a tool — you should feel like we're in your corner, cheering for you and celebrating your wins.

Two sides of the same coin

Success at MAI lives at the intersection of technical excellence and human empathy. We care deeply about your "why." We believe the way we treat one another and our customers is just as important as the products we build.

The Team

Meet #mai-people

The people behind the tech are the ones who give this company its pulse. We are a team defined by our passions, our families, and our unique perspectives.

Yuchen

CEO

Previously VP of Engineering at Instacart and Principal Engineer at Google Ads Ph.D in Machine Learning from Northwestern, B.Eng from Tsinghua

Jian

CTO

Previously Sr Director of Engineering at Instacart and Senior Staff Engineer at Google Ads Ph.D in Machine Learning from UC Santa Cruz. B.Eng from Fudan

Liang

Founding Engineer

Previously Staff engineer at Instacart and Google Ads Ph.D in Machine Learning from Indiana University Bloomington. B.Eng from SJTU

Xiangyu

Head of AI

Previously Director of Engineering at Instacart and Staff Engineer at Google Ph.D in Statistics from Duke University. Bachelor in Math from Peking University.

Chia-eng

Member of Technical Staff

Previously Staff engineer at Instacart and software engineer at Amazon Master in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UCI. B.Eng. from National Chiao Tung University

Jin

Member of Technical Staff

Previously Staff Machine Learning engineer at Instacart and Machine Learning engineer at Google, Pinterest. Master in computer science from UT Austin. BS from Nanjing University.

Gavin

Member of Technical Staff

Previously Senior Backend engineer at Instacart and at Kiavi. Master in computer engineering from University of Michigan. BS in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University.

Haipeng Zheng

Data Scientist

Previously Member of Research Staff at The Voleon Group Ph.D. Princeton University B.Eng. Tsinghua University.

Destiny Everett

Executive Business Partner

Previously Executive Assistant at Instacart MFA from University of San Francisco BA Philosophy from Nova Southeastern University

Tal Shaked

Advisor

Chief Machine Learning Engineer, Moloco.

Mia

Design Lead

Previously Senior Product Design at Babco Bachelor in Industrial Engineering from Tehran University

Tony

Member of Technical Staff

Previously Staff Data Science Engineer at Stripe, with 2 startup exits earlier. PhD in ECE from CMU, Machine Learning Focus. BS in EE from Tsinghua.

Huayang Cui

Member of Technical Staff

Previously staff engineer at Databricks, ex-Lyft|ex-AWS.

Yihong Wu

Professor

James A. Attwood Professor of Statistics and Data Science. Chair, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University.

Jerry Dischler

Advisor

Former President/VP/GM at Google, leading Ads, Workspace, AI Apps and Commerce.

Dipti

Member of Technical Staff

Previously Machine Learning engineer at Typeface and Data Scientist at IBM Master in Computer Science from UCLA, B.Tech from IIT Bombay

Kelechi Nwadibia

Client Partner

Previously Senior Account Executive at Google (Ads) and GTM Development Lead at Venture Firm, SignalFire.

Kan Ta

People and Talent

Ex-Robinhood, Pinterest, Reddit, Airbnb. Ex-Co-Owner of Binc (acq. by Robinhood). B.S. Biology, UC Irvine. J.D. University of San Diego.

Suann

Member of Technical Staff

Previously a backend engineer at Verily and Founding Engineer at OfOne. M.S. Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon

Andrew Watt

Client Partner

Former Enterprise Account Executive @ Webflow, SafeGraph Founder of Watt's Wigs

Susan Pan

Performance Marketing Strategist

Previously growth marketing lead at Credit Karma and B2C business Master in Marketing from University of Texas at Dallas

Igor Rogovic

Performance Marketing Strategist

Previously Lead Strategist at HawkSEM B.A. in Economics, Portland State University.

BO LI

Member of Technical Staff

Previously Senior Machine Engineer II at Credit Karma/Intuit, Senior Backend engineer at Google Shopping Ads and ex-Microsoft. PhD in CISE from UF. Master and Bachelor in EE from Huazhong University of Sci & Tech.

Jacqueline M

Client Partner

Google Ads growth team for DTC ecommerce brands and CX/AI startup, Reputation.

Nitin Mangal

Product Manager

Previously Director of Product at Walmart. MBA from MIT Sloan. B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur.

Shuo Feng

Data Scientist

Previous founding data science leader at TikTok and ex-Googler. Previous co-founder of CreatorLook AI. MS in Computer Science of Georgia Tech, MS in Business Analytics of U. Minnesota Twin City. BA Tianjin U.

Lifu Zhang

Member of Technical Staff

Previously Software engineer at Google (Ads). Researcher at BU and Harvard. B.S. Computer Engineering and Dual degree in Physics, Boston University.

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