Rachel Hu
FounderFounder at Energent AI
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedEnergent AI · YC
About
Rachel Hu was previously an Applied Scientist at AWS where she worked on large language models and led open-source machine learning projects adopted by over 500 universities globally. She is now co-founder and CEO of CambioML.
Founder at Energent AIYC S23
Intro paths
YC
Rachel went through Y Combinator (Summer 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Experience
- Energent.aiCofounder and CEOcurrent2024 — present
- CambioMLCofounder and CEOcurrent2023 — presentAbu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)AI/ML Scientist2019 — 2023
- Northwestern UniversityGuest Instructor2020 — 2023
- GGV CapitalGGV Fellow2020
- University of California, BerkeleyGraduate Student Instructor2019
- University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessResearch Assistant2018 — 2019
- Ultimate SoftwareData Scientist2017 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
- CPP Investment BoardTotal Portfilio Management Co-op2016Toronto, Canada Area
- CPP Investment BoardPortfolio Engineering Co-op, Global Tactical Asset Allocation2015Toronto, Canada Area
- University of WaterlooTeaching Assistant2015Waterloo, ON
- Periscope CapitalInvestment Systems Developer2015Toronto, Canada Area
Skills & more
Data Analysis48Financial Modeling45NLP6Financial Analysis18Finance9Risk Management11Data Science5Deep Learning3Python51C#19VBA18Bloomberg Terminal11
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MatlabManagementLanguages English
- Amazon Web Services Machine Learning Specialty — Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect - Associate — Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Data Engineering on Google Cloud Platform Specialization — Google Cloud | G Suite
- Deep Learning Specialization — DeepLearning.AI
- Machine Learning — Coursera
- Financial Risk Manager(Level I) - PASSED — Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP)
- Models for Financial Economics — Society of Actuaries
- Financial Mathematics — Society of Actuaries
- Probabilities — Society of Actuaries
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Rachel Hu?
- Rachel Hu was previously an Applied Scientist at AWS where she worked on large language models and led open-source machine learning projects adopted by over 500 universities globally. She is now co-founder and CEO of CambioML.
- Where does Rachel Hu work?
- Rachel Hu is Founder of Energent AI.
- What companies did Rachel Hu found?
- Rachel Hu founded Energent AI.
- Where did Rachel Hu go to school?
- Rachel Hu studied at Y Combinator; University of California, Berkeley (Master's degree, Machine Learning and Statistics); University of Waterloo (Bachelor’s Degree, Double Financial Engineering & Statistics).
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