Summary
Brandon Yang is a founder and machine learning engineer with 11 years of experience building research-driven ML systems and startups from Palo Alto. As Cofounder of Cartesia he’s focused on real-time, multi-modal AI for edge devices, building on prior roles scaling ML infrastructure and AutoML at Snorkel AI and research contributions from Google Brain and Stanford AI Lab. He blends deep research (co-authoring NeurIPS papers and biological language modeling work) with product-facing engineering, having shipped features at Facebook and Asana and led ML systems used by Fortune 100 customers. Brandon also brings early-stage founder experience from Cadence and a background as a PhD student at Stanford, signaling both technical depth and operational grit. An uncommon thread through his career is moving novel ML research into robust production platforms that serve regulated enterprise and device-constrained environments.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at The Harker School
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Stanford University
Japanese, Chinese, English