Nathan Yan
I make projects I personally find interesting
Past
interned at Ultralytics (YOLO) and Roboflow (YC 2020) at 16, learning an ungodly amount of computer vision
research at Harvard training AI doctors. Left for ↓
cofounded a company building physical AI doctors, got 16k in compute, and almost went homeless in sf
won 1st and 3rd at deca world championships (1/500,000)
Projects
The world’s largest Hackathon database (1k users in 2 weeks)
An Instagram plugin that ruins your social life (most technical hackathon proj)
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)
traits of humans whom I respect the most: high agency, no shame, good taste, willing to mess up, delusion/conviction in oneself, humble