Chaki Ng

• Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Chaki Ng designs and builds emerging technology products and businesses. Most recently he founded Viacom NEXT (viacomnext.com), which launched various VR and AR titles between mid-2016 and 2017. Previously he was SVP Product for media brands like MTV, VH1 and CMT and in 2 years launched 15 TV Everywhere apps (iOS/Android/XBOX) and responsive sites with hundreds of millions of video streams annually. He co-founded and sold Interactive Constructs, a 70-people adaptive eLearning platform company that powered innovative web products such as Read180 for top publishers (Scholastic, Harcourt, Pearson) that have combined over a billion student/teacher page views annually. Chaki holds PhD and SM degrees in Computer Science from Harvard, MBA from MIT Sloan and BS in CS from Northeastern. His academic research includes wireless sensor networks, IoT, market design and virtual currencies. He currently is focusing on deep learning and blockchains. Some of his projects can be found at chaki.com.