Huican Zhu

Dr. Huican Zhu is a Founder and Managing Partner at AMINO Capital. Huican joined Google in 2000 and was responsible for many significant Google researches. He was a pioneer of Google’s image search and the first Senior Chinese Engineer and Senior Manager at Google. From 2010 to 2012, he was Chief Architect and General Manager of Infrastructure at Tencent. Dr. Zhu has received high praise for his excellent computer vision research capability.

He completed his B.E. degree at Sun Yat-sen University, M.S. degree at the National Academy of Science, and Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Huican has a strong academic reputation, and his research results have over 12,000 citations.

He is currently a board member of Weee, Innogrit, Anchain, Qury, MaxFun, Yiqixie, and Cloudfort, and has over 10 years of experience in investing in fast-growing companies like AppFolio (NASDAQ: APPF). Dr. Zhu joined the UC Santa Barbara Foundation Board of Trustees in 2019 and is a board member of Harker School and president of the Zhu Family Foundation.