naoo: Dr. David Liu joins naoo from eBay as Head of AI

EQS-News: naoo AG / Key word(s): Personnel/Miscellaneous naoo: Dr. David Liu joins naoo from eBay as Head of AI 14.04.2025 / 09:33 CET/CEST The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Media Release

naoo: Dr. David Liu joins naoo from eBay as Head of AI

• Liu brings extensive expertise in machine learning, AI-driven user engagement, and large-scale recommendation systems.
• With AI and machine learning, naoo is intensifying its focus on user retention, personalized recommendations, and content offerings to scale advertising revenues and drive growth.
• Liu joins a team of senior cloud and data engineers at naoo.

Zurich/Switzerland - April 14, 2025. naoo AG (ISIN: CH1323306329, WKN: A40NNU), operator of the unique social media platform naoo, appoints Dr. David Liu as Lead Data Scientist and Head of AI. In this role, Liu will be responsible for leading naoo’s AI and machine learning initiatives. His focus will be on creating a smarter, more personalized user experience: content will become more relevant, engaging, and easier to discover—significantly enhancing user interaction on the platform. This technological advancement lays the foundation for substantially improved user retention, fostering a more vibrant ecosystem. In turn, this will provide powerful drivers to scale advertising revenues and accelerate revenue growth.

Dr. Liu joins naoo from eBay, where he served for several years as Lead Scientist, working in both Shanghai and Zurich. At eBay, he led research teams and developed large-scaler enterprise recommendation systems, multimodal AI models, and real-time personalization engines. Prior to that, he was Senior Machine Learning Leader at IBM in Shanghai, where he led a team of engineers focused on developing advanced ML algorithms. His solutions significantly improved the performance of IBM’s customer service platforms. Liu holds a PhD in Computer Science, a Master’s degree in Computer Science, and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.