Meet the Team

The core team driving Abaka AI's strategy, operations, and global partnerships

Tom Tang

Tom Tang

CEO

Tom Tang is the CEO of Abaka AI. Tom helps drive Abaka AI’s growth by connecting enterprises with high-quality data and AI-ready services. Abaka AI is a data and infrastructure partner for frontier AI labs, providing curated datasets, data services, and scalable delivery to accelerate model development and deployment. With a global network of researchers and operators, Abaka supports customers across industries in sourcing, refining, and operationalizing data for real-world applications—helping teams move faster from experimentation to production with trusted supply, compliance, and execution.

Yunfei Zhao

Yunfei Zhao

COO

Yunfei Zhao is the Chief Operating Officer of Abaka AI and an Advisor to Pika Labs. He previously served as Global Strategy & Partnerships at Pika, leading strategic collaborations across the creative AI ecosystem. Earlier in his career, he was an Investment Analyst at IDG Capital, with experience in sustainable energy and consumer electronics, and held roles at Tesla and NetEase. Yunfei holds a Master’s degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and dual Bachelor’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Zhejiang University and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Zihan Wang

Zihan Wang

VP of Research & Founding Member

Zihan Wang is the founding member and VP of Research at Abaka AI, where he leads global research and community collaborations on large-scale data infrastructure for frontier AI systems. He also heads the 2077AI Research Foundation, an open-source nonprofit focused on building community-driven benchmarks and evaluation frameworks for next-generation AGI models. Meanwhile, Zihan is deeply involved in community and thought leadership, organizing initiatives across top-tier computer science conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR), workshops, and webinars.

Omid Gholamzadeh Nasrabadi

Omid Gholamzadeh Nasrabadi

Head of Partnership

Omid is the Head of Partnership at Abaka AI fostering team cohesion and collaboration to deliver high-growth clients acquisition campaigns. Foundational client research, lead gen tool use, and team priority setting are some of the daily responsibilities. While he holds a degree in economics and is a Schwarzman Scholar in global affairs, he matured 8 years of industry experience in NGO's, Startups and Government. He won the Princess Diana Award 2020 for the contribution to tackling cardiovascular diseases, and sleep disorders. Omid's passion for system-level execution helps in sales success at Abaka, policy advisory at UNESCO, and GTM partnerships in various Impact Startups in EU, and MENA.