Chaki Ng, PhD

Chaki Ng develops emerging technologies, ships products that serve millions and builds startups. Most recently, he was a product executive at Viacom. He first led as Senior VP of Product for MTV and other brands: built multiple teams that launched 15 video apps on  and redesigned all websites in just 2 years, with combined 500M+ video streams and 23M+ unique visitors annually (and tens of millions of revenue ); and re-imagined VMA + MTV News with modern UX + design processes and data science. Then he took on the challenge of prototyping emerging businesses at a Fortune 500 company as the Founder + SVP of Viacom NEXT -- an VR + AR studio that rapidly shipped over 8 projects (on Steam + iOS stores, premiered at Sundance, SXSW, White House and won a Grand Prix at Cannes Lions) in just over a year. 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 via multi-million dollar licensing deals. His brains were heavily re-wired while designing distributed systems (sensor networks + cloud / grid networks) using 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 + Blockchain-Infrastructure + Mechanism Design / Game Theory

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