Who is Dr. Karl K. Zhao?
Dr. Karl K. Zhao is a seasoned AI leader with 15+ years of expertise in generative AI, robotics, and cloud platforms. He has led teams of 150+ engineers, scaled businesses to $100M revenue, and developed groundbreaking innovations like RobotGPT—the first multimodal LLM for robotics. A former SVP at CloudMinds, Softbank Vision Fund backed unicorn start-up, he specializes in AI-driven solutions for healthcare, legal, technology and so on. Currently a GenAI Consultant at DeepSeek AI, Quasar Digital Solutions and Sicore AI, Karl empowers businesses with open-source AI strategies. He holds a Ph.D. from Northeastern University and a B.S. from Tsinghua University.