Kuang Chen

Co-founder
Captricity

The idea for Captricity came from Kuang Chen’s Ph.D. dissertation. His research focused on data-centric approaches to increase the efficiency of low-resource organizations, so they can better serve their disadvantaged clients.

While doing research in Tanzania and Uganda, Chen experienced firsthand the importance and difficulty of transforming data from paper forms to computable formats. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley, a B.S. in computer science, and a B.A. in the comparative history of ideas from the University of Washington.

Panel Discussion:
Thursday, May 8, 2014 - 3:45 pm