Diana Hu
General Partner at Y Combinator
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDiana Hu is a technology investor and operator with 11 years of experience founding and scaling AR and ML platforms, now a General Partner at Y Combinator in the San Francisco Bay Area. She co-founded Escher Reality (YC S17) and served as Niantic’s Head of AR Platform after acquisition, building production-grade augmented reality APIs and infrastructure. Earlier roles at Verizon Labs and Intel solidified her expertise in machine learning, computer vision, and recommender systems for media and industrial applications. Diana combines deep engineering chops with startup-building instincts—she moves fluidly between hands-on platform design and mentoring founders on product-market fit. A Carnegie Mellon-trained engineer, she’s notable for translating advanced research into consumer spatial computing experiences.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical and Computer Engineering, MS Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (2)
prediction7
elasticsearch3
Github contributions (5)
sdhu/elasticsearch-prediction
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 12 pushes in 4 months
predictionelasticsearch
sdhu/sdhu.github.io
Jan 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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