Yiliang Zhao

Yiliang Zhao is the Director of Data Science at Openspace Ventures. He has more than 10 years of experience in managing and developing end-to-end machine learning projects from ideation to production.

Prior to Openspace, Yiliang was J/APAC Machine Learning Practice Lead with Google, where he led the regional ML practice, oversaw ML pipelines and managed training/enablement programs/initiatives. He worked with multinational industry leaders including Fast Retailing, Netmarble, AirAsia, AU Optronics and UOB on various machine learning projects.

At Openspace, Yiliang works with portfolio companies to improve their AI and machine learning strategies, including project planning, machine learning use case ideation, technical deep dive, data science team building and enablement.

Yiliang holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from National University of Singapore and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (1st Class Honours).