Phillip Wang
Phillip Wang is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gather, a video-chat platform designed to make virtual interactions more human. Phillip believes that Gather is a start of a metaverse where people can choose to live their lives without the constraints of the physical world. A technologist and builder at heart, he spent a great year at Siempre where built and explored better ways to have relationships over a lifetime. He is also skilled in researching and working with artificial intelligence technology to learn how it can have a positive impact in real-world settings. Previously, Phillip conducted research in meta-learning with Brandon Amos and released the first open-source implementation of SNAIL, a popular meta-learning architecture.
Phillip Wang Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer
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Researcher
Academic History
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School of Computer Science
RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
Some of Phillip's interests include urban planning, math, the environment, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence.
He has experimented with 3D holographic technology, robotics, and noise-canceling speaker technology.
Tackling sample inefficiency in Reinforcement Learning using Minecraft and imitation learning.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Holochat (Holographic 3D video chat)
Subtle Asian Matches (Dating app with 20k+ users)
SquareCraft (Multiplayer strategy game)
PyTorch Implementation of SNAIL
Strategy Extraction using Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
RoboVote (Voting website for collective decisions)
Hands Free Texting (Android phone application)
INTERNSHIP
Facebook: Worked on data science and full stack engineering for the Marketing Automation team
Cruise Automation: Built deep learning models for object detection and image segmentation tasks.
Microsoft: Designed, built, and evaluated machine learning model for intelligent inferences on user intents in emails and event extraction
MEDIA
Phillip has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.