Nathan Yan
I make robots go brrrr
Past
interned at Roboflow YC S20 (15), and Ultralytics (16) learning an ungodly amount of computer vision
tried making a company building physical ai doctors, went homeless in sf (17)
interned at an egocentric data company, lived with founders (17)
won 1st and 3rd at the largest highschool business comp, 1/500,000,
(16, 15)
Projects
Built pong as a world model, with inference optimization (60 fps via webgpu), runnable on phone
An autonomous bomb defusal robot (second at a YC hackathon)
A Clash of Clans attack analysis tool (3 million views as a 15 yr old)
The world’s largest Hackathon database (1k users in 2 weeks)
traits of humans whom I respect the most: high agency, no shame, good taste, willing to mess up, delusion/conviction in oneself, humble