Jerry Pan is a prominent figure in the technology industry, known for his significant contributions as an entrepreneur and engineer within the AI and blockchain sectors. As the Cofounder and CEO of o1.exchange, operated by Cohuman Labs, he leads a pioneering on-chain financial platform serving a vast user base of 370,000, with monthly processing of over 4.6 million in venture funding from renowned venture capital firms such as Coinbase Ventures, AllianceDAO, and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). ^[1]​

Education

Jerry Pan earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science and Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied from 2020 to 2022. He also attended the University of Cambridge as a visiting student and undergraduate researcher, focusing on Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience. ^[4]

Career

Jerry Pan is an entrepreneur, engineer, and researcher working in artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and data systems. In 2024, he co-founded o1.exchange, where he serves as Chief Executive Officer.

Prior to founding o1.exchange, Pan was a founding AI engineer at Iris, contributing to the development of technologies related to knowledge graphs, structured data retrieval, query processing, and machine learning infrastructure. The company was later acquired by Glean. He also participated in the inaugural AI Venture Fellow program at Bain Capital Ventures.

Earlier in his career, Pan worked as a software engineer at Databricks, focusing on machine learning and data monitoring systems. He additionally held research and engineering positions at organizations including Twitter, Google, Berkeley RISE Lab, Berkeley Sky Lab, Blues Lab, Sophon Tec, and the University of Cambridge, where his work spanned machine learning, cloud computing, privacy technologies, blockchain applications, and computer systems research. He also completed research internships at Stanford University and ExTrade Capital Management, where he worked on metagenomics and quantitative trading models, respectively. ^[4]