Nan Wang

Co-founder and CTO of JINA AI

Dr Nan Wang, co-founder and CTO of Jina AI, graduated with a PhD in Computational Neuroscience from the University of Bochum, Germany. He then worked as a senior algorithm engineer at Zalando, a leading European e-commerce company, and Tencent, where he was responsible for the search and recommendation business, and accumulated rich experience in model design, implementation, and deployment in these areas. Since founding Jina AI in 2020, as co-founder and CTO, Dr Nan Wang led the team to develop and open source the neural search framework, jina. As a TAC member of the Linux Foundation AI&Data Fund, he facilitated DocArray's graduation from the Linux Foundation AI&DATA. Dr Nan Wang has organised the development and open-sourcing of several textual and multimodal vector models, which have accumulated over 10 million downloads worldwide. Dr Nan Wang is passionate about the practical application of AI technology in the search field and actively promotes the open source development of AI technology. His outstanding contribution in the field of AI technology has earned him the title of 33 Chinese Open Source Pioneers in 2023.