About
Edward Ma is a co-founder of YouArt who previously worked as a machine learning engineer at TikTok and DoorDash, where he contributed to scaling ad products. He has published research in AI with significant citation impact.
Founder at YouArtYC X26
Intro paths
YC
Edward went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was David Lieb, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran YouArt's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Edward can intro founders to YouArt's investors below.
YouArt's investors · 1
Co-founders at YouArt
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Harry ZhengFounder
Experience
Skills & more
AWS LambdaData ProcessingReinforcement LearningMachine LearninggRPCAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Oracle DatabaseRedisAmazon Web Services (AWS)Deep LearningGitCloud Computing
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JavaScriptTypeScriptGo (Programming Language)Software DevelopmentC++JavaPython (Programming Language)FlaskPytorchTensorflowFrom Edward's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Edward Ma?
- Edward Ma is a co-founder of YouArt who previously worked as a machine learning engineer at TikTok and DoorDash, where he contributed to scaling ad products. He has published research in AI with significant citation impact.
- Where does Edward Ma work?
- Edward Ma is Founder of YouArt.
- What companies did Edward Ma found?
- Edward Ma founded YouArt.
- Where did Edward Ma go to school?
- Edward Ma studied at Columbia University (Master's degree, Computer Science); Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Bachelor's degree, Information Engineering (AI Track)); University of California, Berkeley (Visiting Scholar, EECS).
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