Dr. Jiaping Wang is currently a venture partner at IOSG Ventures. Previously, he was a senior research manager at Microsoft's Redmond Research Lab, focusing on research in distributed systems, computer graphics and vision, and GPU clusters for machine learning. He has published dozens of research papers in top international journals such as ACM SIGGRAPH/ToG and has been granted more than ten US patents. Wang also served as an executive director at Innovation Works, with a focus on investing in blockchain and artificial intelligence. He led the first institutional investment in Bitmain and became one of its three major investors in the first round of funding.