Bio
Jinlin Wang is Co-Founder and CEO of Auryc, a next-gen customer engagement platform, located in the heart of Silicon Valley at Los Altos, CA. Prior to this, Jinlin spent 5+ years from Jan 2011 to Feb 2016 at Answers Corp., served as the company's COO & CTO, and led the company's people and technology operations. Prior to joining Answers, he was a principal development manager of Online Service Division at Microsoft, responsible for contextual ads modeling and algorithmic development. Before joining Microsoft, he was a director of engineering at Yahoo where he led the research and development of analytics and quality-based pricing for paid/sponsored search (multi-billion dollar) marketplace. Over the four years at Yahoo, he led the development and operations in the following areas: the Yahoo direct marketing system (DMS) that transacts and optimizes multi-million dollar annual advertising spend, the content recommendation engine for online users, the recommendation engine and media buying optimization for large display advertisers, and the optimal delivery of display advertising. He is the lead or co-inventor of four patent applications of innovative online monetization methods. Prior to embarking on consumer internet and online monetization, Dr. Wang spent eight years at PeopleSoft and subsequently Oracle managing and developing optimization technology and its applications. He was a founding manager of the PeopleSoft Optimization Group and led the team in conceiving, prototyping, building, and growing the PeopleSoft Optimization Framework (POF), the industry’s first patented design and run-time framework for cost effective development and deployment of optimization applications. He is a co-inventor of the patented framework.