Behind WPT Global’s tables, A5 Labs turns streams of poker decisions into signals about bots, collusion and player skill. Its recent move brings that same game-theory machinery out of the security room and into the player’s hands.

Thanh Tran is Co-CEO of A5 Labs, a Foster City-based AI company building game integrity infrastructure for competitive online gaming. With a PhD in Computer Science from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and a background scaling Upwork's data science team through its IPO, he now leads a 180-person team applying deep reinforcement learning, blockchain reputation systems, and real-time behavioral analytics to eliminate bots, collusion, and cheating from online poker and beyond.