Chen Zhang
Chief Technology Officer
Technology, AI
San Francisco, CA, USA
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Chen Zhang is the Chief Technology Officer at RAIN, a leading voice technology company. Chen sets RAIN’s technical vision, leads the technology team, and manages the company’s technical roadmap, development, and partnerships.
Over the past 10+ years, Chen has worked in the Voice and Conversational AI fields as an engineering leader and hands-on developer across companies of different scales, from FAANG to Fortune Global 500 to tech startups. At Apple, Chen spent nearly six years on the Siri team, serving as the founding member of the Siri Chinese NLP team and contributing to the initial Siri implementation for Apple Watch, HomePod, and new generation Apple TV. At Midea, the world’s largest producer of robots and appliances, Chen also built and led conversational AI teams in the US and China, supporting 8 Business Units and 30+ products.
Chen holds a Master of Science from University of California, Los Angeles, and a Bachelor of Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, both in Computer Science.
In 2023, Chen Zhang started working with Navan:
Navan is the all-in-one super app that makes travel and expense easy so you can focus on being there, not getting there. Say goodbye to spending hours on the phone trying to change your flight or saving stacks of receipts to manually input expenses. From EAs and finance teams to travel managers and employees, Navan empowers people to concentrate on the things that matter most to them — all while providing companies with real-time visibility, savings, and control.