Bay.Area.AI: Interview with Jiang Chen, Zilliz

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Jiang Chen is the Head of Ecosystem and Developer Relations at Zilliz, the company behind the open-source vector database Milvus. He had previously served as a tech lead and product manager at Google, where he led the development of web-scale semantic understanding and search indexing that powers innovative search products such as short video search. He has years of industry experience handling massive unstructured data and multi-modal content retrieval. Jiang holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.