Dr. Maokai Lin is CTO and Co-Founder of Smarking, a data analytics Software as a Service (SaaS) startup for parking management based in San Francisco. Since launching Smarking in 2014, Maokai leads the company to provide real-time data visualization, predictive analytics, and dynamic pricing for over 2000 parking locations in the US and Canada, including clients such as City of Miami, City of Santa Monica, Boston Logan Airport, San Diego Airport, MIT, and Brookfield Properties. Maokai holds a PhD degree in Operations Research from MIT. Before Co-founding Smarking, Maokai worked on pricing and modeling at Facebook and Morgan Stanley.