From industry to academia, building AI that works.
MS in Artificial Intelligence from Hawaii Pacific University (2026). A decade in tech. Pivoted to AI in 2021. Now formalizing production experience through academic research.
About Tao An
Founder of FIM Labs Pte Ltd (🇸🇬 Singapore · 🇨🇳 Beijing), building FIM One, an open-source AI connector hub that links agents to enterprise systems (Feishu, Slack, Teams & more). Also serving government and enterprise clients in China, with production AI systems focused on legal and healthcare domains.
Research interests: Retrieval-Augmented Generation, LLM memory architectures, knowledge graphs.
News
AI as Equalizer or Amplifier? published in the HHAI 2026 proceedings (IOS Press, FAIA vol. 423, open access).
Joined the NeurIPS 2026 Ethics Review Committee.
AI as Equalizer or Amplifier? accepted to HHAI 2026 (Brussels; IOS Press proceedings).
New preprint — Verbatim Chunks Beat Extracted Artifacts, a controlled ablation of memory representations for long LLM conversations (under review, ARR).
Interviewed by Medium — The Truth About AI Right Now, on what actually works in real deployments.
New preprint — Cognitive Workspace: Active Memory Management for LLMs.