Vivian Zhang
Venture Partner at Columbia University
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVivian Zhang is a venture partner and AI entrepreneur with 12+ years building and scaling AI products, educational programs, and early-stage startups across healthcare, finance, and education. She founded and led NYC Data Science Academy—training over 10,000 learners through nationally accredited programs—and has a track record of placing graduates into ML/DS roles while advising corporate clients like McKinsey and Bloomberg. As an operator and investor she has incubated and funded dozens of AI ventures (GoDental.AI, SustainableFashion.AI, WarehouseRobot.ai) and participated in one of the largest seed financings for Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs. Her background blends rigorous academic research and publishing in statistics and causal inference with hands-on productization of generative AI and model-tuning platforms. Notable but less obvious: she bridges academia and venture by teaching capstones at Columbia while simultaneously closing major seed rounds and building commercial data-labeling and digital-twin solutions. She is actively seeking collaborations on generative AI for business applications and remains engaged in the NYC AI community.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at San José State UniversityEntrepreneurship & Innovation Certificate, HBS Executive Education, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Certificate, HBS Executive Education at Harvard Business SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Applied Math and Statistics, Master of Science - MS, Applied Math and Statistics at Stony Brook UniversityPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Columbia UniversitySCPD program, Statistics and Computer Science, SCPD program, Statistics and Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
nodejs2
mongodb2
javascript2
css2
nyc1
visualization1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
casunlight/NYCDataScience_HadoopClass
Apr 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:57 commits in 7 months
casunlight/LeetCode
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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