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Erfan Soliman
Co-Founder at StudyStream (YC S21)
Erfan Soliman is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at StudyStream, a video platform and online community where students from over 180 countries can study together in real time.24 StudyStream aims to provide accountability, motivation, and a sense of community to students, helping over 3 million users feel less isolated while studying.2 Soliman's email address is erfan@studystream.live.2
Soliman's extensive background includes:
- StudyStream: Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer (December 2020–Present).1
- Cibus Health: Co-Founder, aiming to improve infant feeding through physiological biomarker monitoring (February 2019–March 2021).1
- Oxford Global: Founder of a social enterprise that organizes educational programs (March 2015–March 2021).1
- University of Oxford:
- Programme Manager at Enterprise Process Labs (EPL-HIT) (July 2019–December 2020)1
- Stipendiary Lecturer at Somerville College (October 2018–September 2020)1
- MPLS Enterprise Fellow (September 2018–March 2020)1
- Healthcare Innovation Fellow (September 2017–September 2018)1
- Graduate Lecturer & Research Coordinator (October 2014–September 2017)1
- Tamweelcom: Project Consultant, analyzing the Jordanian microfinance market (October 2013–June 2014).1
- U.S. Green Data, Inc.: Product Engineer and Design Strategist (January 2012–May 2012).1
- Endeca: Software Engineering Intern (June 2011–August 2011).1
- Harvard University: Teaching Fellow & Course Assistant (April 2010–May 2011).1
- Qatar Chemical Company: Electrical Engineering Analyst (June 2010–August 2010).1
Education:: Soliman completed a Bachelor of Science (S.B.) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Harvard University (2008–2012) and a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford (2012–2017).1 He also obtained a Fellowship from the Higher Education Academy in April 2017.1
Soliman co-founded StudyStream with Ti Xu and Sarujan Ranjan.3