胡耀傑 Jeff Hu

JOB TITLE
Founder and CEO
DEPARTMENT
Turing Chain Limited/
INSTRUCTION LANGUAGES
  • Mandarin
  • English
Turing Chain
PERSONAL BIO

Currently the co-founder and CEO of Turing Chain Limited. One of the first scholars in Asia to be invited to the UC Berkeley Blockchain Lab. He previously worked as Head of Blockchain at New York's news media blockchain Blackbird.AI, and lead NLP engineer at J.P. Morgan. He has published three blockchain papers in ACM, IEEE, and international journal CPE, and was awarded the Best Paper in MobiSys’18, Germany.

Moreover, Jeff is the winner of FITI 2020 and has won the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2017 Hong Kong, known as Olympiad of Software, the FinTech Up-Town competition 2018 in Korea, ETNet e-commerce competition 2019 in Hong Kong, and more than 20 international technology and science awards.

Jeff also conducted in-house training for J.P. Morgan, Acer, and BASF, and taught blockchain in five different universities in Taiwan and Hong Kong. His company, Turing Chain, served many traditional industries and government agencies, including movie theaters, news media, casino leagues, and e-sport gaming.

WORK EXPERIENCE AND AWARDS
  • UC Berkeley Blockchain X-Lab – Research Scholar
  • BlackBird.AI (Greater New York City Area) – Head of Blockchain
  • UC Berkeley Sutardja Center of Entrepreneurship and Technology – Technical Startup Mentor
  • Ex Lead NLP Dev at J.P. Morgan
  • Author of three blockchain publications at ACM MobiSys, IEEE DappCon, and the CPE Journal
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
  • University of California, Berkeley, MEng IEOR - FinTech Concentration
  • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Computer Science
  • National Hsinchu Senior High School
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