About Me

Currently, I am a lead AI/ML Engineer with experience in developing machine learning and its application in web3, especially on the solana chain.

My aim is to combine the power of technology with the beauty of art to create products that are both technically impressive and aesthetically pleasing.

I am also a trained artist working in traditional mediums of printmaking, photography, game development,and animation.

Links

GitHub	LinkedIn	Google Scholar	Art Station
@wu-hongjun	@wu-hongjun	Hongjun Wu	@wuhongjun

Education

• Cornell University
  Master of Science in Information Systems

• Technion
  Master of Science in Applied Information Science

• University of Washington Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Visual Art

Professional Experience

Stealth AI + Web3 Startup (2024 - Present)
Lead Machine Learning Engineer

• Working on a new project that will revolutionize the way we interact with the solana chain.
• Employee #1, leading the AI/ML team, also help out with frontend and backend.

Brownie AI (2023 - 2024)
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer

• Oversee UX, frontend development, marketing, and project management for Brownie AI’s ApplyTailor.
• ApplyTailor made it to Y Combinator’s W24 Batch Final interview!
• We pivoted after a beta launch after projected revenue could not cover the running costs with an affordable business model.
• It was the early days of the LLM boom and running large language models was expensive!

Trunk Tools (2023)
Machine Learning Software Engineer (Contract)

• Contributed to the early days of Trunk Text, a LLM-powered construction knowledgebase.

Lerer Hippeau (2023)
Artificial Intelligence Engineer (Contract)

• Built a LLM based internal tool for company website data ingestion and analysis.

Dreamhaven - Moonshot Games (2022)
Technical Artist (Intern)

• Worked on an unannounced AAA title as a technical artist intern using Unreal Engine 5 and Maya.

TrackAir (2022)
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer

• Co-Founded an joint startup initiative focused on improving pregnancy outcomes through smart air quality monitoring in developing countries

Locomotion Devs (2021)
Co-Founder, Game Artist

• We developed one of the best selling and highest rated VR games on Steam, Vive Hub, and Itch, SuperFly VR.
• Over 500 positive reviews, 60,000+ units sold, and multi-million user uploaded gameplays on Youtube (Link to a Playlist).

Articles

1. F. Heisel, V. Petrova, H. Wu, “RhinoCircular: Integrated Material and Construction Circularity Evaluation Tool for Early-design Phases”, SBE22 Berlin Sustainable Built Environment D-A-CH Conference, 2022.

2. R. Desai, L. Fernandez, D. Guishard, C. Sylvester, H. Wu, “Tech Pals: Results from a Smart Screen Technology Pilot for Homebound Older Adults”, Carter Burden Network Internal Report, 2022.

3. T. G. Lagos et al., “Studying Abroad Meets Marginalization: Roma of Greece, Autoethnography, and Academic Tourism”, Journal of Tourism and Management Research, Vol. 9, No 2: 125-139, 2022.

4. K. Wang, J. Yang, H. Wu, “A survey of toxic comment classification methods”, arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.06412, 2021.

Honors & Awards

Award	Details	Prize	Year
Cornell Tech Startup Award	Finalist	-	2022
Zumtobel Group Awards	Special Prize for Innovation	€20,000	2021
Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute	Connective Media Merit Scholarship Award	$30,000	2021
University of Washington	Dean’s List	-	2018 - 2020
FIRST Robotics Competition	Team Spirit Award - Central Valley Reginal	-	2017

Academic Positions

Institution	Role	Course	Name	Term
Cornell University	Grading Assistant	INFO 5305	User Experience & User Research	Spring 2023
Cornell University	Grading Assistant	CS 5787	Applied Machine Learning	Autumn 2022
Cornell University	Course Assistant	CS 6785	Deep Generative Models	Spring 2022
University of Washington	Teaching Assistant	CSE 416	Introduction to Machine Learning	Spring 2019 Spring 2020 Summer 2020

Open Courses

Institution	Role	Instructor	Course	Name	Year
Cornell Tech	Producer	Volodymyr Kuleshov	CS 6785	Deep Generative Models	2022
Cornell Tech	Producer	Volodymyr Kuleshov	CS 5787	Applied Machine Learning	2023

Research Experience

Institution	Organization	Role	Year
United Nations	Democracy Fund (UNDEF)	Developer	2022
Co-developed an incubation platform for CSO communication and collaboration
Cornell University	Circular Construction Lab	Software Developer	2021 - 2022
Developed RhinoCircular, a Rhino plugin in Grasshopper for evaluating design sustainability and help architects make more sustainable choices Winner of 2021 Zumtobel Group's Special Prize for Innovation
University of Washington	Reality Lab	Researcher	2020-2021
Conducted a research project on how to reduce motion sickness in VR, building a procedural generated city in Unity and implementing locomotion mechanisms.
Harvard University	Center for Hellenic Studies	Researcher	2019
Conducted ethnographic field work in Athens and Nafplion, on the modern situation of the Roma people in Greece, a group of poor and often marginalized and discriminated people in the Greek society.
CERN	Hsu Group	Data Scientist	2019
Applied CNN techniques for long-lived particle and dark matter detection in ATLAS experiment data
University of Washington	Aircraft Icing and Aerodynamics Research Group	Researcher	2017 - 2019
Developed the calibration software of the Kirsten Wind Tunnel in LabVIEW

Open Source Projects

Heiya & Heiya GUI (2022 - 2023)

• One line solution for building automatic high efficiency image pipelines.
• User friendly interface for non-coders to interact with the Heiya library.

Xwift (2023)

• Automatic Maya Python toolkit development pipeline.

References

Available upon request via this contact form.

---

© Hongjun Wu, 2025. All rights reserved.