About
Amy Yuan has a background in computational physics and previously co-founded an AI-driven personalization company that generated over $150M in revenue. She is now building at Proven Group.
Founder at Proven GroupYC W18
Intro paths
YC
Amy went through Y Combinator (Winter 2018) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Amy can intro founders to Proven Group's investors below.
Proven Group's investors · 4
Co-founders at Proven Group
MZ
Ming ZhaoFounder
MZ
MINGSHU ZHAOExecutive Officer, Director
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ZAOSHI YUANExecutive Officer, Director
Experience
- PROVEN SkincarePROVEN Group - Co-founder & CTOcurrent2018 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Lyra HealthData Science Manager2016 — 2017Burlingame, CA
- MckessonData Scientist Lead2015 — 2016
- Stanford University School of EngineeringResearch Scholar2013 — 2015Stanford, CA
- Various Different StartupsCo-Founder and Operator2007 — 2013
- University of California - Collaboratory For Advanced Computing and SimulationsResearch Fellow2007 — 2012Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Skills & more
Statistics59Programming16Product Management7Start-ups4Early-Stage Startups1Digital Marketing1Data Engineering1Research SkillsHigh Performance Computing7Scientific Computing7Cloud Computing13Machine Learning12
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OptimizationComputational PhysicsData AnalysisArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data ScienceC++PythonFortranSQLPython (Programming Language)Team LeadershipLanguages Chinese
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Amy Yuan?
- Amy Yuan has a background in computational physics and previously co-founded an AI-driven personalization company that generated over $150M in revenue. She is now building at Proven Group.
- Where does Amy Yuan work?
- Amy Yuan is Founder of Proven Group.
- What companies did Amy Yuan found?
- Amy Yuan founded Proven Group.
- Where did Amy Yuan go to school?
- Amy Yuan studied at Y Combinator; Stanford University (Postdoc Fellow, Computational Physics); Stanford University Graduate School of Business (Stanford Ignight, Business).
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