Jesse Zhang
Cofounder, Chief Product Officer at Beacons
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Zhang is a founder and product leader with 11 years of technical experience, currently serving as Cofounder and Chief Product Officer at Beacons where he builds AI-powered tools to help creators run smarter businesses. Trained as an electrical engineer with a PhD from Stanford, he bridges deep computational biology and machine learning research with product-first startup execution. His academic work included designing computational tools for single-cell RNA-Seq and developing methods for more robust deep learning models, and he taught a Stanford course on data science for high-throughput sequencing. Prior roles at GRAIL, Cellular Research, and industry labs show a pattern of turning complex bioinformatics and signal-processing challenges into production-ready algorithms. Based in San Francisco, he combines technical rigor and startup grit—backed by investors like a16z and YC—with a knack for shipping ML-driven product features that simplify monetization for creators. An uncommon blend of wet-lab adjacent research experience and hands-on product leadership helps him translate noisy scientific problems into elegant, user-focused solutions.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorNewton South High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Tufts UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (15)
rna-seq10
seq10
sequencing10
differential-expression9
science9
clustering9
bioinformatics9
throughput9
api-client7
python-client7
api6
data-science6
python5
notion-api5
notion4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jessemzhang/deep_learning_genomics_nlp
May 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:73 commits, 73 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
jessemzhang/porcupine_neural_networks
Jun 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:40 commits in 1 year 3 months
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