胡耀傑 Jeff HU

Founder & CEO

Turing Chain
Turing Chain/

Job Title
Founder & CEO
PERSONAL BIO

Jeff is Founder and CEO of Turing Chain, and was 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.

Jeff is the winner of FITI 2020 and has also 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

【Work Experience】

  • Founder & CEO, Turing Chain, Taiwan (2018 - present)
  • Research Scholar, UC Berkeley Blockchain X-Lab, Taiwan (2019 - 2020)
  • Head of Blockchain, BlackBird.AI, USA (2017 - 2019)
  • Technical Startup Mentor, UC Berkeley Sutardja Center of Entrepreneurship and Technology, USA (2017 - 2019)
  • Lead NLP Developer, J.P. Morgan, USA (2017- 2017)

【Achievement】

  • Author of Three Blockchain Publications at ACM MobiSys, IEEE DappCon, and the CPE Journal
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
  • Master in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research -  FinTech Concentration, University of California, Berkeley, USA
  • Bachelor in Computer Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
INSTRUCTION LANGUAGES
  • Mandarin
  • English
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