Dr. Tony Hoang
AI Leader, Executive & Inventor
Atlanta, GA
Host of The Artificial Intelligence Podcast: 98 interviews since 2021 with leaders from Cisco, Intel, Databricks, Deloitte and Samsara. Spotify Wrapped 2025: Top 2% Most Shared Podcast.
Dr. Tony Hoang is an AI executive who builds enterprise AI programs end to end - from strategy and governance through deployed products and the teams that run them. His career spans Fortune 500 enterprises, global consultancies, and venture-backed startups, including one he co-founded and led through acquisition.
An inventor with 10+ patents spanning high-throughput computing, IoT, and microscopy - including the Centrifuge Force Microscope validated for International Space Station mission testing - Dr. Hoang holds a PhD in Computational Biophysics with a specialization in computer vision. He also hosts The Artificial Intelligence Podcast, featuring leaders from Intel, Databricks, Deloitte, and Samsara.
Guests have included Jeff McMillan (Founder, McMillanAI; former Chief AI Officer, Morgan Stanley), Kamal Hathi (SVP and GM, Splunk, Cisco), Hao Yang (VP and Head of AI, Splunk, Cisco), Johan Land (Chief Product Officer, Samsara), Ketan Karkhanis (CEO, ThoughtSpot), Babak Hodjat (Chief AI Officer, Cognizant), Hagay Lupesko (SVP of AI Inference, Cerebras Systems), Joe Atkinson (Chief Products and Technology Officer, PwC), Michelle McGuire (Partner and Chief Commercial Officer, Deloitte), Debo Dutta (Chief AI Officer, Nutanix), Zachary Hanif (VP of AI/ML, Twilio), Maddie Daianu (Head of Data & AI, Intuit Credit Karma), Adam Burns (VP, Intel), Cheryl Martin (Global Higher Education and Research, Nvidia), Varun Mohan (CEO, Codeium), Barr Moses (CEO, Monte Carlo), Balaji Raghavan (Head of Engineering, Postman), Shiva Pillay (GM & SVP Americas, Veeam) and Karl Harris (CEO, Lex Machina, LexisNexis). See all 98 interviews →
Honors & Recognition
Areas of Expertise
Enterprise AI Governance & Strategy
Architecting generative AI strategies and institutionalizing responsible AI governance - building enterprise frameworks that mitigate corporate risk while accelerating adoption at scale.
Product Innovation & Scaling
Turning experimental R&D into high-margin product offerings - from an AI-native federal proposal platform through acquisition to high-throughput computer vision and IoT systems delivering 85%+ efficiency gains.
R&D, Invention & Patents
Inventor with 10+ patents (granted and pending) across high-throughput computing, IoT, and microscopy - including the Centrifuge Force Microscope, validated for International Space Station mission testing.
Experience
BlueCross BlueShield
Managing Director, Generative AI
- - Built the enterprise AI governance framework and orchestrated the company-wide AI roadmap, advising the C-suite on risk management, governance, and the strategic ROI of generative technologies.
- - Architected and deployed a customer service representative-facing chatbot achieving 90%+ accuracy.
- - Institutionalized responsible AI frameworks and standardized the deployment of reusable AI components across the enterprise.
GovAIQ (acquired by G2Xchange)
Co-Founder
- - Co-founded and scaled an AI-native federal proposal platform, defining the technical vision and commercial strategy from stealth-mode inception through a successful acquisition.
Wavicle Data Solutions
Director of Innovation, Head of R&D - Executive Leadership Team
- - Aligned the R&D investment roadmap with corporate growth objectives, converting experimental pilots into scalable, high-margin enterprise offerings - including enterprise LLM architectures.
- - Led a multidisciplinary organization spanning Engineering, Data Science, and Product, championing an AI-first culture and new recurring revenue streams.
Slalom Consulting
Senior Delivery Principal - Global AI
- - Headed global AI delivery operations, defining international go-to-market strategies and standardizing AI delivery methodologies across regional markets.
- - Established the firm's largest global “Art-of-the-Possible” Use Case Library to maximize cross-market reusability.
AudioEye
Director of Machine Learning, Head of Data Science
- - Led a 12-member multidisciplinary organization and owned the multi-product roadmap, aligning technical infrastructure investments with corporate P&L goals.
Education
Ph.D., Computational Biophysics
Computer Vision Specialization · University at Albany, SUNY
Selected Publications
A "smart" tube holder enables real-time sample monitoring in a standard lab centrifuge
PLOS ONE · 2018
The Technology Development and Commercialization of "Smart" Scientific Instrumentations
PhD Dissertation · 2017
A wireless centrifuge force microscope (CFM) enables multiplexed single-molecule experiments
Review of Scientific Instruments · 2016
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