Hien Luu

HIEN LUU, M.S, head of machine learning infrastructure at Zoox and chair of the AI Business Practices program, has over 20 years of experience designing and developing scalable web applications and big data infrastructure and applications at Silicon Valley companies, such as DoorDash, LinkedIn, Uber, Netflix, and Yahoo. He specializes in big data technologies and machine learning and is an artificial intelligence enthusiast. He has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington and a master’s degree in Software Engineering from San Jose State University. He has taught for UCSC Extension since 2003, serves as chair of both the AI Business Practices and the AI Engineer programs, and as an advisor on the Data Science and Data Analysis Advisory Board. To reach him directly, email him at hcluu@ucsc.edu.