Phoebe Yao
Founder & CEO at Pareto.AI
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhoebe Yao is the founder and CEO of Pareto.AI, building human-in-the-loop systems that capture frontier human intelligence for partners like Anthropic and Character.ai. With nine years of experience and a Human-Centered Design & Engineering degree from Stanford (plus HCI study at Oxford), she blends research rigor with product-first startup execution. Her background includes research stints at Stanford and Microsoft and a Thiel Fellowship, signaling a track record of translating academic insight into commercial AI tooling. Phoebe focuses on keeping humans relevant in automated workflows, designing interfaces and data pipelines that surface high-value human judgments for model training. Based in Palo Alto, she combines founder-level strategy with hands-on experimentation in ML-human collaboration, often working at the intersection of design, ethics, and scalable data systems. An underappreciated strength is her ability to operationalize nuanced human expertise at scale—turning qualitative judgment into structured signals for cutting-edge AI.
9 years of coding experience
Foundations of Human-Computer Interaction Computer Science, Foundations of Human-Computer Interaction Computer Science at University of OxfordBachelor of Science (B.S.) Individually Designed Major: Human Centered Design & Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Individually Designed Major: Human Centered Design & Engineering at Stanford University
English
Github Skills (15)
chat8
react-native6
react6
boilerplate4
compose4
nginx3
ssl3
ios3
javascript3
docker3
docker-compose3
letsencrypt2
certbot2
extensibility1
authentication1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
phoebexy/phoebexy.github.io
Dec 2019 - Jun 2021
:sparkles: Build a beautiful and simple website in literally minutes. Demo at http://deanattali.com/beautiful-jekyll
Contributions:26 pushes in 1 year 6 months
simple-websitebeautiful-jekylljekylljekyll-thememinutes
phoebexy/neural-style-painting-affect
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Neural style in TensorFlow! :art:
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 day
artdeep-learningneural-networksmachine-learningneural-style
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