About
Kenny Zhang studied computer science at Berkeley and has worked as a music producer, with prior experience at Tencent and Amazon. He is now building Physical Turing.
Founder at Physical TuringYC S25
Intro paths
YC
Kenny went through Y Combinator (Summer 2025) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Tyler Bosmeny, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Physical Turing's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
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In turn, Kenny can intro founders to Physical Turing's investors below.
Physical Turing's investors Β· 1
Co-founders at Physical Turing
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Adith ReddiFounder
Experience
- Physical TuringCo-Foundercurrent2026 β presentNew York / SF
- GoRiff (YC S25)Co-Foundercurrent2025 β present
- Cal HacksTech Director2024 β 2025
- David AISoftware Engineer2025
- Tencent Music entertainment GroupSoftware Engineer Intern2024
- Computer Science MentorsMentor2024
- OpenSearch ProjectSoftware Engineer Intern2023 β 2024United States
- Alecto AIMobile Developer Intern2023
- Alecto AIWeb Developer2023
Skills & more
RoboticsTestingStart-up LeadershipSystems EngineeringLarge Language Models (LLM)Ableton LiveGo (Programming Language)1Full-Stack DevelopmentTypeScriptMicroservicesGradle1Android Development
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Android StudioOpenCVWeb EngineeringAPI DevelopmentSoftware EngineersDeep LearningRedisMatplotlibHumanoidC++Next.jsMySQL- Introduction to Computer Vision and Image Processing β IBM
- Introduction to Deep Learning & Neural Networks with Keras β IBM
- Machine Learning with Python β IBM
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Kenny Zhang?
- Kenny Zhang studied computer science at Berkeley and has worked as a music producer, with prior experience at Tencent and Amazon. He is now building Physical Turing.
- Where does Kenny Zhang work?
- Kenny Zhang is Founder of Physical Turing.
- What companies did Kenny Zhang found?
- Kenny Zhang founded Physical Turing.
- Where did Kenny Zhang go to school?
- Kenny Zhang studied at Y Combinator; University of California, Berkeley (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science); Basis International School Park Lane Harbour (High School Diploma).
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