Rocky Duan

Rocky Duan is a highly accomplished technology leader and researcher with a notable career in artificial intelligence and applied science. Currently serving as a Senior Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon since September 2024, Rocky previously co-founded and held the position of CTO at Covariant.ai from September 2017 to September 2024. Prior roles include a PhD student at UC Berkeley from August 2015 to December 2017, and a Research Scientist at OpenAI from February 2016 to August 2017. As a co-founder and CTO of Sellegit Inc. from February 2013 to August 2015, Rocky also contributed as a Research Assistant at UC Berkeley, focusing on deep learning and optimization algorithms. Educational qualifications consist of a PhD in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics, both obtained from the University of California, Berkeley.