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Huan Ling

Huan Ling is the chief scientist of Veeda AI, a foundation model company based in Toronto. Veeda AI raised a US$90M seed round in August 2026 led by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures. The Canadian AI Newsletter last covered Veeda AI in October 2026.

Huan Ling is a co-founder and Chief Scientist of Veeda AI, which builds multimodal world models that simulate physical reality so robots can learn in virtual environments. Ling worked at NVIDIA from 2018, starting as a research intern and later becoming a senior research scientist and research manager who led teams on generative world models. Ling was a core contributor to NVIDIA's Cosmos world foundation models. Ling holds bachelor's, master's and PhD degrees from the University of Toronto; Sanja Fidler supervised the doctorate.

Chief Scientist of Veeda AI.

LinkedIn@HuanLing6

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Veeda AI

World models for physical AI.

Role
Chief Scientist
HQ
Toronto, ON
Founded
2026
Status
Active
Disclosed raised
US$90M
Latest round
Seed, Aug 19, 2026
Website
veeda.ai

Co-founders: Sanja Fidler, Zan Gojcic

Investors: Radical Ventures, Khosla Ventures

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