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Co-founder, Chief Innovation Officer at HeyGen
📍 Los Angeles, California, United States

Wayne Liang is the Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of HeyGen, an AI video generation platform. With a background in product design from ByteDance and Smule and a Masters from Carnegie Mellon, he is focused on revolutionizing visual storytelling and empowering creators with AI tools.

Wayne is passionate about fostering a culture of rapid innovation, hosting internal hackathons and spending his weekends on personal "agentic coding" experiments. He and his co-founder started HeyGen specifically because they prefer not to be on camera, aiming to solve the demand for video through code.

Unique fact: Wayne was a recipient of the prestigious Apple WWDC Student Scholarship in 2012, highlighting his early talent in technology and design.

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Current Role
Co-founder, Chief Innovation Officer
Location
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Topics Wayne cares about

Future of Video
As CIO of HeyGen, he frequently speaks at industry events about the future of AI-driven video and new features that are shaping the creator economy.
Generative AI
His work involves "cooking AI magics" to advance AI video generation, with a vision to make visual storytelling accessible to all businesses and creators.
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Career

Work history

7-2024
Co-founder, Chief Innovation Officer
HeyGen
12-2020 - 7-2024
Co-founder, CPO
HeyGen
3-2020 - 11-2020
Product Design Lead
ByteDance
2-2019 - 3-2020
Director of Design
Smule, Inc.
4-2018 - 2-2019
Senior Product Designer
Smule, Inc.
In the press

Media appearances

Q1 Product Innovation with Wayne Liang, Co-founder of HeyGen. Featured in YouTube
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AI Insider: Q1 Product Innovation with Wayne Liang, Co‑founder of HeyGen (Video). Featured in HeyGen Community
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Education
Master's degree
Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng)
Tongji University
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