Mei Marker received her B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from Tsinghua University and a PhD degree in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University where she studied under pioneers and visionaries of Artificial Intelligence such as Jaime Carbonell, Director of Language Technology Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, and Herb Simon, Nobel laureate and recipient of the Turing Award.

Mei has over 20 years of experience conducting applied research in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, with applications in Economics, Finance, Marketing, fraud protection, and other enterprise business. Mei has previously worked at lead research labs including NASA/JPL, SRI (Stanford Research Institute), Fortune 100 companies such as Apple Inc, Adobe Inc, and served as Chief Scientist at top start-up companies in Silicon Valley.