Roger Luo Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Embedding VC is a pre-seed/seed stage venture firm in Silicon Valley to back US Generative AI startups. We are committed to the mission of developing AGI and believe we are at the onset of a new computing supercycle, fundamentally driven by AI innovations. Our investors are all current or former builders and operators. As active company builders from the ideation stage, we are often among the first institutional investors to support ambitious and visionary founders.

Engineering Leaders Community Angels is an inclusive community of engineering leaders investing in early-stage technology startups founded by engineering and product leaders. The group is managed by a group of Engineering Leaders Community (ELC) members who are also experienced angel investors and operators. We focus on investing in engineering-driven startups with disruptive market opportunities, solid traction, technology advantage, and making a positive impact on society, whether they are in enterprise, consumer, or deep tech. ELC (https://sfelc.com/) is a curated community for engineering leaders in Silicon Valley, with close to 10,000 leaders (from CTO/VP to frontline managers) from over 3,000+ companies. Our mission is to empower engineering leaders and help evolve the way leadership is implemented in the tech industry. ELC portfolio companies: Datasaur, Respell AI, InpharmD, Bacca AI, testRigor AI, OnwishJoin syndicate: https://angellist.com/s/elc/uwmgp

Early-stage startups that I invest in and/or advise: Bacca (AI reliability oncall Engineer, Uncork Capital), testRigor (Generative AI-based Test Automation Tool, YC), Superlinked (VectorOps, Index Ventures and Theory Ventures), Particle Labs (Leverage Automated Market Maker, Polychain Capital), Onwish (AI Assistant for Professional Financial Analysts), InpharmD (AI Assistant for Clinic Pharmacist, 645 Ventures, YC), MagicSchool.ai (Co-pilot for educators, GSV Ventures), Pinnacle (AI Copilot for learning how to manage engineering team), Monterey.ai (Intelligent customer voice infrastructure, YC), Respell.ai (No-code AI application platform, Craft Ventures), Vinovest (Wine investing and trading), Digma.ai (1st continuous feedback platform for developers), DealDriver.ai (AI-powered car buying service), BlockPi (Distributed multi-chain acceleration layer), RealM (Generative AI social platform where your words come to life, Insight Partners), Gradual (All-in-one community platform), Eco (Unbank, A16Z & Founders Fund), Datasaur (Labeling tools for machine learning, YC & Initialized Capital), Ahana (A managed service for Presto, Acquired by IBM), Super Effective (Social media), Meemo.ai (Personal finance app, Acquired by Coinbase), TigerGraph (Fastest and the most scalable Graph DB, Tiger Global & SIG), NEAR Protocol (A highly scalable, low cost blockchain protocol, A16Z & Coinbase Venture), NUTS Finance (DeFi, Polychain, Hypersphere), LMK (anonymous poll for Snap kit, GGV Venture), VideoSlick (AI for professional video editing), Quest.ai (formally GameCommerce , UX Automated), Invi Labs (Messenger service, Acquired by Google), Splish (Social media for Gen Z, Acquired by NTWRK).

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Building a DevTools ecosystem on top of ELC. Empower and enable engineering leaders with state-of-art DevTools. ELC https://sfelc.com/ is a curated community for engineering leaders in Silicon Valley, with close to 10000 leaders (from CTO/VP to frontline managers) from over 3000+ companies. Our mission is to empower engineering leaders and help evolve the way leadership is implemented in the tech industry. We host monthly events and annual conferences, inviting high-caliber engineering leaders to share their learnings and insights on various topics engineering leaders care about. Our speakers include some of the best engineering leaders, book authors, and entrepreneurs, such as Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, Eric Yuan and tech executives from Google, Amazon, Facebook, OpenAI, Affirm, Square, Lyft, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Stripe, Pinterest, Stitch Fix, VMware, Waymo, Slack, Airbnb, Gusto, DoorDash, Yelp, Grand Rounds, Quora, Github, Credit Karma, Zendesk, Robinhood, Zillow, etc.I have been an active community member since 2018.

Manchester, Nh, Us

Alumni Ventures collaborates with elite angel investors — a select group of co-investors chosen for their track record, sector expertise, and community connections.

San Francisco, California, Us

Stay on top of the technology and business trends through angel investing.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Source and invest in early stage startups.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Oversee Niantic’s machine learning division, leading a team of applied machine learning scientists & engineers, infrastructure engineers and product manager. Drive the ideation, development, and deployment of machine learning solutions tailored for Niantic’s games and platform customers.

Eve is the first personalized AI tool built for the legal profession that you can partner with, train, and teach, just like any other member of your team.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

– Develop language AI platform for languages in emerging markets. Work with two of the top ten mobile phone manufactures in the world to build their own white label voice assistant for emerging markets. – Recruit and manage product and engineering teams across three different offices (Palo Alto, Shenzhen and Singapore). Setup engineering offices in Shenzhen and Singapore. – Define product strategy and engineering roadmap for the company. – Shipped 2 million units of Roku like TV operation systems with voice search capability to users covering 6 languages across 40 countries, grew 20% MoM.* The team landed at AWS during COVID in 2020.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

A Y-Combinator startup. As an advisor of the company, I helped the company pivot to focus on emerging markets, raised new venture funds. I ended up joining Mosaix.ai full time as a co-founder in Jun 2019.

Beijing, Beijing, Cn

Help CGC, a leading early-stage venture capital firm investing globally with a focus on enterprise software and deep tech, sourcing and performing due diligence on AI and deep tech startups. We invested in ~8 early stage stage startups in AI and enterprise software spaces. Among these investments, Plus.ai (seed), WeRide.ai (seed) become unicorns.

Santa Monica, California, Us

– User profile service.– Data Privacy Compliance including GDPR. – Machine learning for discover content recommendation.– Content understanding, user understanding and feed ranking.

Santa Monica, California, Us

– Founding members of Snapchat Research. – Lead the R&D efforts of multiple recommendation, discovery, search and data products. – Lead user growth projects: (new) user behavior analysis, user churn prediction, “friend you may know” (Quick add).– Machine learning platforms and Cloud AI (Vision/Audio/Speech/Text) APIs. – Lead data mining research area.

– Manage the search federation science team. – Tech owner of Yahoo's aggregated search platform for mobile & desktop search. – Science owner of Yahoo's query analysis and query understanding system. Lead the efforts to improve the performance of query annotation, entity tagging, entity disambiguation and query intent classification. – Build next-generation rich information card based systems for Yahoo's mobile search experiences.– Collaborate with external partners and interns on search, data mining and machine learning research projects.

– Tech lead of Yahoo's aggregated search platform for mobile & desktop search (blend results from vertical search engines like news and local into web search results). Build a system to automatically learn from user feedback data what and where the type of contents to show on the search result page. Product is live and serving 100% of Yahoo Search traffic in more than 10 countries and regions (including USA), improving user metrics and revenue considerably.– Research on large-scale distributed machine learning and web search.

Martigny, Valais, Ch

Research on machine learning and computer vision: developing new machine learning algorithms for image categorization and other general classification problems.Research projects (in inverse chronological order): + Learning from weakly supervised data; + Image Retrieval and Categorization; + Multiple Sources Information Fusion; + Visual Place Recognition System.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

I worked with the Page Optimization & Presentation Team, in the Search Science Division. Developed federated search and vertical search algorithms.

Stockholm, Se

- Student researcher at Computer Vision and Active Perception Lab (CVAP). - Developed a library for controlling cameras mounted on mobile robot including several image processing tools.- Developed a camera setup for acquiring perspective and omnidirectional images at three different indoor laboratory environments located in three different European cities. (http://cogvis.nada.kth.se/COLD/)

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Artificial Intelligence

Visiting Student Researcher, Computer Vision Laboratory

Visiting Student Researcher, Center For Biological & Computational Learning

Master'S Degree, Computer Science