Yi Zhang
Founder at MedHug
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYi Zhang is a founder and scientist with a decade of experience bridging bench science and healthcare entrepreneurship to make medications more affordable, accessible, and higher quality. Based in Palo Alto, Yi led graduate research at Stanford Medicine developing next-generation insulins and translated that expertise into launching MedHug to tackle systemic drug access challenges. Trained with dual PhD-level backgrounds in chemical/systems biology and biochemistry, plus entrepreneurship training from Stanford GSB, Yi combines deep molecular knowledge with product-minded leadership. A past STVP Accel Fellow and Emergence mentee, Yi focuses on building ventures people love to join and on mission-driven design. Known for a pragmatic, empathetic approach—summed up by “seeing by believing”—Yi brings scientific rigor, startup grit, and a patient-centered ethic to healthcare innovation.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahExchange student Department of Biological Science and Technology, Exchange student Department of Biological Science and Technology at National Chiao Tung UniversityStanford Ignite - Certificate Program in Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Stanford Ignite - Certificate Program in Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBachelor of Science - BS Life Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Life Science at Xiamen UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD (SNF) Chemical and Systems Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (SNF) Chemical and Systems Biology at Stanford University
Github Skills (53)
pytorch10
benchmark10
toolbox10
openmmlab10
semantic-segmentation10
image-segmentation10
semantic10
segmentation10
swin-transformer10
medical-image-segmentation10
video-understanding9
image-enhancement9
yolov79
mobilenet9
clip9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zhangrui-wolf/openmmlab-competition-2021
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
OpenMMLab 2021 Algorithm competion code repository. Tentatively reproducing RepVGG and SFNet.
Contributions:56 commits, 6 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 month
pytorchcompetioncode-repositoryopenmmlabrepvgg
zhangrui-wolf/PictureBed
May 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:214 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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