ZR

Zhen Rong Yap

AI Research Engineer | ex-NASA JPL | Oxford & MIT Jardine Scholar

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $20,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $15,000,000.00

Work Experience

2024

  • AI Research Engineer

    2024

    Reasoning

2023 - 2024

  • Research Scientist

    2023 - 2024

    Additive for rotordynamics in turbomachinery

2023 - 2023

  • Software Engineer

    2023 - 2023

    AI and Manufacturing (first hire)

  • Product & Growth

    2023 - 2023

    Consumer Gen AI

  • Research Collaborator

    2022 - 2023

    Continuing from internship in the Materials Development & Manufacturing Technology Group (357H)

  • AI & Materials Technologist

    2022 - 2022

    AI + Theory for thermo. Vision segmentation for micrographs. Additive interfaces for spacecraft heat rejection. Supervised by Dr Richard Otis and Samad Firdosy

2022 - 2023

  • Early Stage Investor & Data Scientist

    2022 - 2023

    Areas: Aerospace, Manufacturing and AI Investor in Diagon.ai (Pre-Seed)

2021 - 2023

  • Podcast Host

    2021 - 2023

    Two brothers into science, technology, and entrepreneurship.

  • President / Secretary

    2021 - 2023

    It's for the soul.

  • Battery / Machine Learning Research

    2021 - 2021

    ML for batteries. Supervised by Dr. Mona Fariji-Niri

  • Machine Learning Engineer

    2020 - 2021

    ML for COVID-19 detection from lung CT scans and prediction of seizures from EEG data.

2019 - 2019

  • International Summer School for Young Physicists (ISSYP)

    2019 - 2019

    Selected as Valedictorian. Project: Investigating and modelling phase transitions in ferromagnetism with Monte Carlo methods and Renormalisation Group Flows on the Ising Model (Mentor: Dr. Sebastian Steinhaus)