Shelden Shi

Shelden is the Co-Founder and CTO of Lilac Labs. Shelden studied CS and CogSci at UC Berkeley, where he conducted research training ML models to predict emotions via audio data.

Before Lilac, Shelden was the founding engineer at Symbolic, leading the development of a Fintech lending platform with ~$1B in AUM and 30k monthly active users. Prior to that, Shelden worked at Flatiron Health, an oncology data unicorn, where he trained and built the evaluation pipeline for cancer diagnostic models.