Tian Jia

Tian Jia, a serial entrepreneur and investor, is an early adopter and long-time supporter of bitcoin since 2011. He majored in distributed systems and acquired BS/MS degrees from the Department of Computer Science and Technology (CS&T), Tsinghua University. Tian Jia served as Chief Scientist in the first Bitcoin Fund in China, bitfundpe.com, a bitcoin fund dedicated to supporting the bitcoin community since 2013, founded by Xiaolai Li. He was an early supporter of Zerocoin upon its incarnation, which later became Zcash. He also invested in Bitfinex, as one of the primary shareholders. Tian Jia helped, advised, and invested in a lot of blockchain startups, including iost.io, data.co, ddex.io, and cortexlabs.ai . His interest lies in computational neuroscience and has joined the founding team of several companies focusing on AI and related areas. Jia Tian has served as a senior dev at Baidu, Inc. and Alibaba, Inc. During this period, he has developed large-scale computer systems including the technology behind so.com, supporting >100 million page views per day and large-scale recommendation systems. Jia Tian will be a fantastic addition to the team and together, we will Accelerate Science