Diana Hu
Group Partner at Y Combinator
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDiana Hu is a seasoned technology leader and startup adviser, currently guiding founders as a Group Partner at Y Combinator in the San Francisco Bay Area, with over a decade of experience building and scaling AR, ML, and data-driven platforms. She previously led Niantic's AR Platform as Director of Engineering, shaping the company's augmented reality infrastructure and developer ecosystem, and before that co-founded Escher Reality, serving as CTO until its acquisition by Niantic. Her work spans from data science leadership at Verizon Labs and Intel to hands-on research in computer vision at CMU, reflecting a track record of turning cutting-edge research into practical, scalable products. Diana combines entrepreneurial experience with deep technical breadth across hardware-aware software, distributed ML systems, and large-scale optimization. She holds a BS and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and her career has consistently bridged academia, startup creation, and venture-scale execution. Based in the Bay Area, she mentors founders to navigate technical and product challenges from inception to growth.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (2)
prediction7
elasticsearch3
Github contributions (5)
sdhu/elasticsearch-prediction
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 12 pushes in 4 months
predictionelasticsearch
sdhu/sdhu.github.io
Jan 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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