The history of the founding team at Ava began with CTO & Co-Founder, who has a background in computer science and information engineering from National Chiao Tung University. They were an intern at VIGO, a software engineering company, and then a research assistant at COMPUTER SCIENCE OF UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO. Afterwards, they worked as a software engineering intern at Buck Institute before becoming the founder & CEO of Ava. The team also consists of a data scientist consultant who has a degree in industrial engineering & operations research from UC Berkeley, and a project manager/analytics associate from AgilOne. Lastly, the junior consultant on the team studied sciences economiques, gestion, finance, macroéconomie, econométrie, entrepreneuriat, and probabilités at Ecole nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.