Chaki Ng, PhD

Chaki Ng develops emerging technologies, ships products that serve millions and builds startup teams. Most recently, he was an innovation executive at Viacom and Founder + Head / SVP of Viacom NEXT -- an VR + AR studio team that rapidly shipped over 8 projects (on Steam and iOS stores and premiered at Sundance, SXSW and White House) in just over a year. He previously was SVP Product for MTV: led multiple product teams that designed + launched 15 video apps on  in just 2 years (with combined hundreds of millions of video streams yearly) and re-imagined VMA + MTV News with modern UX + design processes and data science. He co-founded + sold  a 65-people eLearning company that powered thousands of K-12 + college classrooms for top educational providers such as Scholastic + Harcourt. His brains were heavily re-wired while designing distributed systems (sensor networks + cloud / grid networks) using strategyproof digital markets powered by mechanism design and virtual currencies at Harvard (PhD + SM in Computer Science, advised by Prof. Margo Seltzer and Prof. David Parkes) and tangible + augmented interfaces at MIT (Research Projects at Media Lab). He also holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and a BS (Computer Science) from Northeastern.

Current Interests
Distributed Systems + Blockchains + Mechanism Design | Also: AI + Deep Learning