Nick Zhang

Nick Zhang (Chinese: 张晓东 (Zhāng Xiǎodōng); born 30 August 1963) is CEO of Wuzhen Institute and a writer. In 2017, his book A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence was awarded Top 10 Books of Southern Metropolis Daily. In 2018, he won Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award.

Zhang graduated from Tianjing University in 1985, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1988, and University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1992.

Zhang worked at Harvard and HP in his early years. He moved to Silicon Valley in the mid 1990s. In 2010, he invested and helped startups in internet and artificial intelligence area. He has been partner at VC firms. He founded Wuzhen Institute in 2016. Wuzhen is a town close to Shanghai.

• "Secure Code Distribution". Computer. ISSN 0018-9162.
• Complexity of Neural Network Learning in Real Number Model. ISBN 0-8186-3420-0.
• 尼克 (2017). A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence(《人工智能简史》). ISBN 9787115471604.
• Philosophical Monologue(《哲学评书》). ISBN 9787308129824.
• 杨学良 (1990). UNIX Kernel Anatomy. ISBN 750530674X.