AI / ML Executive & Researcher

Fei Wang

Cofounder & CTO, Alchedata AI  ·  20+ Years in AI/ML

Executive-level AI/ML leader specializing in foundation model post-training, evaluation, and production-scale personalization — from Big Tech to startups, research labs to FDA-cleared medical devices.

20+ Years
80+ Papers
5K+ Citations
70+ Patents
Fei Wang
About Me

Building AI Systems
That Ship at Scale

I'm an executive-level AI/ML leader with a proven track record of leading teams of 40+ — including mentoring managers — building scalable ML infrastructure, and shipping high-impact AI systems in demanding production environments.

My hands-on expertise spans foundation model post-training (SFT, RLHF, RLSF), agentic RL environments, continuous evaluation and regression prevention, and cost/latency optimization for model serving.

I've built and led organizations at Amazon, IBM Research, Visa, Zepp Health, and AliveCor — and I'm now driving the future of agentic AI data pipelines as Cofounder and CTO of Alchedata AI.

Contact & Links
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Fremont, CA 94555
Core Competencies

Areas of Expertise

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Foundation Model Systems
Post-training & evaluation frameworks, metrics design, inference footprint optimization, sampling strategies, distillation & student adaptation
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Post-Training
Reward modeling, evaluator stacks, dataset scoring & selection, RLHF / agentic RL loops, safety & quality gates
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Personalization & Recommendations
Retrieval & ranking, recommender systems, embeddings, experimentation, user & item modeling at scale
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Agentic AI
Multi-agent orchestration, tool use, evaluation-driven improvement loops, agentic RL, workflow automation
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Executive Leadership
Team-of-teams leadership, hiring & developing managers/scientists, 12-month roadmaps, cross-org execution, stakeholder communication
Career

Experience

Cofounder & CTO
Alchedata AI
Jun 2025 – Present 📍 Union City, California

Own AI technical strategy; build and lead the engineering/ML organization; partner on fundraising. Built a Data Platform-as-a-Service and the MaidX multi-agent orchestration layer for end-to-end post-training data pipelines.

  • Built model/data evaluation infrastructure: reward-model training and evaluator stacks to continuously score, select, and improve datasets
  • Implemented agentic RL training loops with repeatable offline evaluation and quality gates for iterative improvement
  • Drove "Data 2.0" platform shift delivering 80%+ automation of enterprise data services
  • Achieved 5× faster pipeline execution and 10–50% cost reduction through disciplined compute optimization
CTO
KronosAI
Jun 2025 – Nov 2025 📍 San Jose, California

Led the development of foundation models for electromagnetics, acoustics, and fluid dynamics, translating physics AI from research to industrial applications to accelerate innovation.

  • Secured $3M seed funding by crafting technical vision and investor narrative, demonstrating executive alignment and business potential
  • Led rapid prototyping of core product (GenAI-driven platform), delivering MVP milestones and customer validation to secure early market traction
  • Defined company strategy and product roadmap, integrating market segmentation and go-to-market plans with scalable technical architecture
  • Built the founding engineering team: recruited and onboarded key engineers, establishing development processes and quality bars to drive velocity
Head of Personalization Science
Amazon Prime Video
Apr 2022 – Jun 2025 📍 Sunnyvale, California

Spearheaded all facets of Prime Video's recommendation and search systems, leading integration of Generative AI with personalization frameworks. Grew team from 10 to 40 scientists and engineers.

  • Single-threaded science owner for Prime Video's HomePage and Title Detail Page, driving discovery and monetization
  • Led StreamFM, a transformer foundation model powering Prime Video ranking — drove +5 min watch time per user per week
  • Launched GenAI-powered "AI Topics": grouping, naming, and dynamic categorization across detail pages
  • Led Search Decoupling initiative achieving >10% increase in Search Attributed Streaming Time
  • Modernized the ML platform, accelerating algorithm development cycles by 2×
Senior Director, AI Research
Visa Research
Nov 2019 – Mar 2022 📍 Palo Alto, California

Built and led a high-performing AI research team from 0 to 15 researchers. Delivered strategic updates to C-suite including CEO and CTO.

  • Deep Authentication Project: AI fraud detection boosting detection rates 20%, projected $20M new revenue
  • Cybersource Recommender System: low-latency (<10ms) system projecting $100M in revenue growth
  • Scalable Feature Aggregation: 10× faster processing vs. native Spark/Redis, saving millions in hardware costs
  • Produced 20+ pending patents and 15 papers in top-tier conferences
Lead Algorithm Scientist
AIBEE Inc. (USA)
Jul 2018 – Nov 2019 📍 Palo Alto, California
  • Led AI-powered smart parking deployments across multiple cities, optimizing urban mobility
  • Built end-to-end deep learning pipeline for vehicle/license plate detection, car model classification, and OCR — deployed on edge and cloud
Chief Scientist in Healthcare
Zepp Health (USA)
Feb 2015 – Jun 2018 📍 Mountain View, California
  • Launched Amazfit Health Band, the company's first medical-grade product (CFDA clearance)
  • Transformed all medical algorithms to deep learning (biometric ID, sleep staging, signal compression) with production performance above SOTA
  • Developed disease classification from biosignals (ECG/PPG/GSR) for AFib, PAC/PVC, sleep apnea; prepared CFDA/FDA filing documentation
  • Filed 10+ patents based on core assets
Lead Algorithm Scientist
AliveCor Inc.
Dec 2013 – Feb 2015 📍 San Francisco, California
  • Responsible for first-ever FDA approval of an algorithm detecting Atrial Fibrillation, plus two additional FDA-cleared algorithms
  • Established strategic research roadmap and big data strategy — hosting ECG algorithms as an API service
  • Filed 10+ patent applications based on core company assets
Research Staff Member
IBM Research – Almaden
Aug 2006 – Dec 2013 📍 San Jose, California
  • Shipped social computing platforms to IBM Watson/BlueMix: PEARL (emotion analysis), Smart SocialQA, and REACH (relationship analytics)
  • Co-led "Medical Sieve" radiology anomaly detection — winner of IBM Research Grand Challenge; integrated into IBM Watson Health Imaging
  • Built "AALIM" multimodal healthcare analytics for Kaiser Permanente; deployed "Clinical Data Hub" at Cedars-Sinai (16,000+ patients)
Academic Background

Education

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University of Florida
PhD in Computer Science · GPA 4.0 / 4.0
2006
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University of Florida
MS in Computer Science · GPA 4.0 / 4.0
2003
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Univ. of Science & Technology of China
BS in Electrical Engineering · GPA 3.9 / 4.0
2001
Recognition

Awards & Honors

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Best Paper Award, ACM RecSys 2022 — "Denoising Self-Attentive Sequential Recommendation" (with former Visa Research team)
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IBM Invention Plateau Award, IBM Almaden Research Center (2010, 2013)
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IBM Invention Achievement Award, IBM Almaden Research Center (2008–2011)
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Best Paper Award, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (2010)
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IBM Technical Accomplishment in Multimodal Healthcare Analytics for Clinical Decision Support (2009)
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Best Poster Award, Computers in Cardiology, Bologna, Italy (2008)
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CVPR Travel Grant Award, IEEE Computer Society (2006)
Outstanding Academic Achievement, University of Florida (2002)
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Outstanding Academic Scholarship, USTC — top 5% undergraduate (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000)
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Chen Hsong Industrial Scholarship, USTC — awarded to top 1% (only 45 students in China, 1998)
Research

Selected Publications

80+ publications · 5,000+ citations · 70+ patents. A selection of representative work spanning agentic AI, foundation models, recommender systems, and adversarial ML.

2026
Fei Wang, Eric Wang, Salon Ren
viXra preprint, 2026
2025
Xinyu He, Jose Sepulveda, Fei Wang, Hanghang Tong
ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2025
2024
Zihuai Zhao, Wenqi Fan, Jiatong Li, Yunqing Liu, Xiaowei Mei, Yiqi Wang, Zhen Wen, Fei Wang, Xiangyu Zhao, Jiliang Tang, Qing Li
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2024
2024
Hanbing Wang, Xiaorui Liu, Wenqi Fan, Xiangyu Zhao, Venkataramana Kini, Devendra Yadav, Fei Wang, Zhen Wen, Jiliang Tang, Hui Liu
arXiv preprint, 2024
2022
Huiyuan Chen, Yusan Lin, Menghai Pan, Lan Wang, Chin-Chia Michael Yeh, Xiaoting Li, Yan Zheng, Fei Wang, Hao Yang
ACM RecSys 2022 🏆 Best Paper
2021
Ahmed Abusnaina, Yuhang Wu, Sunpreet Arora, Yizhen Wang, Fei Wang, Hao Yang, David Mohaisen
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021
2004
M. Rao, Yunmei Chen, B. Vemuri, Fei Wang
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2004