Andrew Shum

Andrew Shum is an entrepreneur with a background in software engineering and artificial intelligence. He was co-founder of Thread Genius, which built computer vision algorithms for retail and e-commerce applications, including visual search and discovery. Thread Genius was acquired by auction house Sotheby’s where Andrew focused on expanding the auction business through machine learning technology. His team pioneered efforts to incorporate vision models for understanding consumer taste and price estimation of artwork. Before founding Thread Genius, he was a software engineer at Spotify working on music recommendation problems. Andrew completed his undergraduate studies in Computer Science and Physics at MIT.