Bill Shi (Feng "Bill" Shi) is Co-Founder and CTO at Pond Global Ltd., a crypto-native decentralized AI model layer built on on-chain data using graph neural network architecture.

Bill earned a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and held research and engineering roles at Amazon and The University of Chicago.

Bill brings deep expertise in graph-based machine learning, having spent nearly 4 years as a Senior ML Solution Architect at TigerGraph, one of the leading graph database platforms.

At Pond, Bill co-leads the development of crypto-native AI models across security, DeFi, and NFT recommendations, backed by a $7.5M Seed round from Archetype, Coinbase Ventures, Delphi Ventures, and Near Foundation.

Pond's security model for predicting malicious blockchain addresses achieves an accuracy of 0.936, and its models are actively deployed on protocols including Zora and Gearbox.