about.

Swee Kiat (SK) is currently co-founder and CEO of Pebblely, a company that applies generative AI to product and fashion photography. Pebblely was founded in January 2023 and has over 1 million users as of September 2023.

Prior to Pebblely, SK was working as a privacy engineer in the Google Payments team. His work in Google include kickstarting the Google Wallet project, reviewing privacy aspects of the Google Pay application, as well as helping with internal work related to differential privacy.

SK studied MSc. Computer Science at Stanford University, specializing in artificial intelligence. He is primarily interested in translating AI research to real-world solutions, having deployed AI applications in various early-stage startups. His research interests also include interpretability and AI governance, with previous experiences in algorithmic bias and differential privacy.

His previous projects include the Lucent library, backend engineering for Stanford's submission to the 2021 Alexa Prize, contributions to the Almond assistant at Stanford Open-source Virtual Assistant Lab (OVAL), improving the protein folding pipeline at the Protein Design Lab and an online primer to algorithmic bias - Machines Gone Wrong.

He also spent two years as an AI researcher in Singapore working on topics including privacy, meta-learning and adversarial attacks.

Contact him at sweekiat <at> cs <dot> stanford <dot> edu.