Team

ChainOpera's co-founders, Prof. Salman Avestimehr and Dr. Aiden He, bring extensive backgrounds in AI and blockchain technologies. Prof. Avestimehr serves as a Dean's Professor at the University of Southern California (USC), directs the USC-Amazon Center on Trustworthy AI, and is an IEEE Fellow in AI and decentralized computation. Dr. He contributes rich R&D experience from leading internet companies including Meta, Google, AWS, and Tencent, with expertise in machine learning and AI applications, and has been deeply involved in Web3 projects. Together, they are also co-founders of TensorOpera and FedML, a leading AI company providing GenAI model services and AI agents to enterprises and developers.

The founding team is composed of members with exceptional background from institutes including UC Berkeley, Stanford, USC, MIT, Tsinghua, Google, Amazon, Tencent, Meta, and Apple. The team has experience in developing and operating the AI/web3 community for consumer apps/agents with massive users, as well as enterprise-grade AI platform with successful customer services.

We are also backed and advised by executives and seniors in cryptocurrency and AI from Coinbase, Binance, Okx, Google, and Capital One.

ChainOpera AI now comprises more than 40 team members across San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Dubai, London, Greece, and Germany.