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Jamie Tan

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Co-Founder and CEO at VizSeek
📍 Redwood City, California, United States

Jamie is the Co-Founder and CEO of Vizseek, a pioneering shape-based search engine company. He holds a Ph. D. from MIT in high-energy astrophysics and has over fifteen years of experience applying his expertise in modeling and simulation to solve complex problems for the manufacturing, defense, and IT industries.

Originally from Shanghai, Jamie is a family man who met his wife at MIT, where they were both earning their doctorates. They were married in the MIT Chapel and have two sons together. He has successfully transitioned his academic knowledge into a thriving industrial technology career.

Unique fact: Before creating visual search technology, his Ph. D. dissertation focused on the computational modeling of neutron stars.

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Experience
27 Years
Current Role
Co-Founder and CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Redwood City, California, United States
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Visual Search Technology
He is a pioneer in the field, having developed visual search technology since the 90s and holds patents for searching parts based on user-drawn shapes.
Industrial Efficiency
His company's core mission is to help manufacturers reduce redundant design and accelerate development cycles, as seen in a recent partnership with automotive supplier Autoliv.
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Career

Work history

10-2014
Co-Founder and CEO
VizSeek
12-2002 - 10-2014
Co-Founder/CTO
Imaginestics, LLC
4-2001 - 12-2002
Director of Research and Development
Maxim I/T Inc
12-1998 - 4-2001
Consultant/Principal Software Engineer (12/98-4/01)
Pitney Bowes/Mailcode
2-1998 - 9-1998
Senior Software Engineer
Vivid Technologies, Inc.
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Education
9-1986 - 9-1990
Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1984 - 1986
Master’s Degree
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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