# Edward Wang

> Edward Wang is a Los Angeles-based founding software engineer at HeyGen whose public record traces an unusually broad early-career route through quantitative development, medical AI, teaching, full-stack projects, a Microsoft internship and two startup experiments. His work sits where machine learning, product engineering and entrepreneurship meet, inside a company trying to turn video production into software.

- **Role:** Founding Software Engineer at HeyGen
- **Organizations:** HeyGen, WZTrade, Lumo, Microsoft, The Ohio State University, Lepu Medical Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Finovax, Cornell Tech
- **Education:** Master's studies in Health Tech through the Jacobs Technion-Cornell dual-degree program, Cornell Tech, Bachelor of Engineering, The Ohio State University
- **Known for:** Joined HeyGen as a founding software engineer during the company's expansion as a global AI video platform., Completed a software engineering internship at Microsoft in 2024., Built and evaluated machine-learning pipelines for pediatric sleep-state classification, reporting an improvement of up to 32 percent within the project.

## Career timeline

- **2021-2022** — Worked as a quantitative developer at Finovax.
- **2022** — Worked as an AI software engineer at Lepu Medical Technology in Beijing.
- **2022-2023** — Served as a teaching assistant at The Ohio State University.
- **2023-2025** — Studied at Cornell Tech in the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Health Tech program.
- **2024** — Completed a software engineering internship at Microsoft.
- **2024-2025** — Co-founded Lumo and served as CEO during its reported operating period.
- **2024-present** — Co-founded WZTrade and serves as CEO, according to public career records.
- **2025-present** — Joined HeyGen as a founding software engineer in Los Angeles.

## Achievements

- Joined HeyGen as a founding software engineer during the company's expansion as a global AI video platform.
- Completed a software engineering internship at Microsoft in 2024.
- Built and evaluated machine-learning pipelines for pediatric sleep-state classification, reporting an improvement of up to 32 percent within the project.
- Built a Node.js backend, REST APIs, testing pipeline and cloud deployment for a NASA-themed real-time planetary exploration project.
- Developed data and regression models intended to help analyze factory run rates and downtime triggers in an academic project using ActivPlant data for Honda.
- Co-founded the reported ventures WZTrade and Lumo.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — HeyGen announced that it had passed $200 million in annual recurring revenue, with more than 30 million users across 196 countries; Wang remained publicly associated with the company as a founding software engineer.
- **2025-07** — Public career records mark the start of Wang's role as founding software engineer at HeyGen.
- **2025-03** — Public career records mark the end of Lumo's reported operating period under Wang's co-founder and CEO role.

## Links

- Website: https://www.heygen.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-wang-01260428b

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Last updated: 2026-09-27