Alexandr Wang is the founder and CEO of Scale AI, the data platform accelerating the development of artificial intelligence. Alex founded Scale as a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (“MIT”) at the age of 19 to help companies build long-term AI strategies with the right data and infrastructure. Founded in 2016, Scale has grown to become the market leader in the leading provider of AI development services for autonomous vehicles manufacturers and serves a broad range of customers from large governmental organizations to leading global companies.

Alex grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where he began his journey with a deep passion for coding. He quickly developed a knack for it as a teenager, winning national computing and physics competitions, including the USA Computing Olympiad. He enrolled at MIT at 17, where he undertook graduate machine learning (ML) coursework as a freshman, before dropping out to found Scale.