Nick Jiang

Nick Jiang is a researcher at Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research, focusing on vision-language models since January 2024. Alongside this role, Nick serves as a Venture Scout at Soma Capital, where a focus on software investments has resulted in over 20 unicorn seed investments. Previous experience includes a software engineering internship at Watershed, aimed at corporate emissions reduction, and a systems researcher position at Berkeley RISE Lab, integrating Kubernetes and cloud support for a Rust framework. Additional roles feature product engineering at Brisk Teaching, contributing to an AI copilot for educators, and internships involving data engineering at Roblox and developing transparency dashboards at Recidiviz. Earlier experiences comprise machine learning and product management at ThayerMahan Inc., and natural language processing research at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on design thinking trends among product managers. Nick holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science and Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley.