# Nina Wei

> AI Design, Psychotherapy | Realm Labs, AI Fund, Baidu AI, Founder

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ninawei

US government approved “Alien of Extraordinary Ability” (EB1-A / Einstein Green Card)
Building AI trust & safety at Realm Labs.
Was building LLMs at Lamini for the past two years. 
Developing and designing AI products since 2016 at Baidu AI, AI Fund/DeepLearning.AI, YC-backed startups.

## Work Experience
### Founding Designer @ Realm Labs
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Report to CEO

Wearing many hats as usual: design, front-end, marketing

### Founding Designer @ Lamini
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Half of the team was acqui-hired by AMD.

Report to CEO

Wearing many hats (design, product, front-end, marketing) to build the future (now) of LLMs.

### Founding Designer @ Rinse (YC S21)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Ran out of funding

Report to CEO

- Designed a dental care mobile app, and led competitor analysis, user flow, wireframe, UX design, visual design, and implementation;
- Designed company website and web booking;
- Partnered with the CEO on product management and business strategy.

### Founding Designer @ Flowdash (acquired by Notion)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
All eng were acqui-hired by Notion.

Report to CTO

- Led the end-to-end design, user research, UX/UI design, and testing;
- Led onboarding optimization, increased engagement by 4x;
- Partnered with founders on product strategy, prioritization, and growth.

### Co-Founder, Product @ Qokka
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Led a small team and shipped several 0 to 1 AI/NLP products;
- Acquired 10+ customers, increased their conversion and revenue by 2x;
- Partnered with the CEO on business strategy, growth, and fundraising.

### Founding Product Manager + Designer @ DeepLearning.AI
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Project Leader at AI Fund (DeepLearning.AI) incubating an AI startup, report to Dr. Andrew Ng

- Led a small team and incubated an AI/NLP wellness chatbot;
- Built a chatbot content management engine using YAML.

### Product Designer @ Baidu USA
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
The only designer at AI Lab, report to Director of Product who reports to Dr. Andrew Ng

- Designed TalkType Voice Keyboard and acquired 100k+ users;
- Shipped SwiftScribe auto-transcription app in two months;
- Granted four patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office;
- Led a research study, published papers on IEEE (Speech/Voice User Interface) and ACM (AI Designer);
- Led workshops incubating new products (chatbots) using AI and NLP.

### Product Designer @ Whitespace | Designer Accelerator
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### Product Designer @ Sourcebits Digital
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### Product Designer @ Quirky
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
The initial offer was a 6-month internship. I got the full-time offer after one month. Unfortunately, I experienced my first layoff with the entire design team in SF a few weeks after that.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

### Summer Research Assistant @ Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy Sciences
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Beijing, China


## Education
### Master of Human-Computer Interaction + Design
University of Washington
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014

### Master of Arts - MA in Counseling Psychology
Santa Clara University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2026

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Applied Psychology
Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/weizhuxiaona

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Last updated: 2026-04-07