Yan Zhang
Yan Zhang
Yan Zhang is an accomplished Product Manager with extensive experience in entrepreneurship and product development across various stages. Yan's expertise includes customer development, market segmentation, design thinking, and stakeholder management in the ADAS, autonomous driving, machine/deep learning, and computer vision spaces. With a strong educational background in Product Management from the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, Yan has held several impactful roles in top-tier organizations. These include being a Research Fellow for Deep Learning Solutions/Products on High-Performance Computing (HPC) at Berkeley Lab, a Research Appointee for Machine Learning for Electron Microscopy at Argonne National Laboratory, and a Senior Product Manager for Software at Velodyne Lidar Inc. Yan's technical proficiency in PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, OpenCV, Python, C/C++, Matlab, CUDA, and MPI coupled with a keen sense of business acumen and application of agile framework allows her to lead cross-functional teams and bring innovative products to market.