Our story
MAI was founded by Yuchen Wu and Jian Wang, technologists and operators who spent a decade building ad platforms and e-commerce engines. They recognized that small and medium-sized businesses lacked access to the advanced growth technology powering the largest platforms—and set out to change that.
Today, a rapidly growing network of D2C brands and apps rely on MAI’s intelligent agents to simplify marketing complexity, surface actionable insights, and drive measurable results.
Backed by Tier 1 investors, MAI is pioneering autonomous growth agents that bring advanced data science and machine learning to every business, working around the clock to help them unlock their full growth potential.
A world-class team
dedicated to our mission
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.
Fabien
Head of Product
Previously Director of Product at Instacart and Product Lead at Shopify
Bachelor of Commerce from OttawaU
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
Mia
Design Lead
Previously Senior Product Design at Babco
Bachelor in Industrial Engineering from Tehran University
Yijia
Member of Technical Staff
Previously Senior Machine Learning engineer at Instacart and Financial Markets Data Analyst at ING
Master in Data Science from George Washington University. BSc Mathematics with Economics from UCL
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.
Tal Shaked
Advisor
Chief Machine Learning Engineer, Moloco.
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