Summary
Vincent Yuan is a curiosity-driven technologist and researcher with 13 years of experience blending AI engineering, product strategy, and project leadership across six countries. He co-founded Sefira AI to commercialize cybersecurity for GenAI, led engineering and go-to-market efforts, and incubated the startup at HEC Paris and Agoranov before joining McKinsey as a Fellow. As a visiting researcher at MIT CSAIL he developed interpretable fairness methods for multi-class computer vision and benchmarked a novel metric, complementing industry work on AI-powered DLP and large-scale data pipelines. Trained at EPFL (MSc Data Science) with a cross-disciplinary minor in Management, he thrives at the intersection of research and real-world impact—comfortable translating academic insights into product-ready, security-conscious systems. An operator equally at home in labs and startups, he brings a rare combination of technical depth, field-tested product execution, and international leadership.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master Thesis, 4/4, Master Thesis, 4/4 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Communication Systems, 5.0/6, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Communication Systems, 5.0/6 at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Master of Science - MSc, Data Science, 5.6/6, Master of Science - MSc, Data Science, 5.6/6 at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
UNSW Sydney