Kai Yang, Ph.D.

Fremont, California, United States3.3k followers

Scale AIex-Novas

ex-Landing AI

I'm passionate about uniting people, creating innovative products, and tackling real-world challenges. My journey into AI began with witnessing all five live AlphaGo matches against Lee Sedol in
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Currently at Scale AI, I lead both AI-PM initiatives and GTM accounts, focusing on developing frontier data products — including our leaderboards, OTS datasets, and evaluation products. I am also responsible for revenue targets across four strategic Previously at Landing AI, I report to Andrew Ng and lead the Product team, focusing on developing and commercializing our flagship product, LandingLens — an end-to-end, data-centric computer vision A 15-year EDA and semiconductor veteran with a D A serial entrepreneur with resilience from multiple An astrophotographer with a backyard A proud father of Oh, and I still write (vibe) code.

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SCALE AIJOB
1. Dir of AI-PM and Account L…
  9M
2. Account Lead
  3M
3. Staff Strategic Product Mgr
  11M
LANDING AIJOB
1. VP of Product
  3Y 6M
2. Head of Product
  5M
3. Dir of AI Transformation
  1Y 5M
SYNOPSYSJOB
1. Sr. Mgr
  8M
2. RD Architect
  1Y 4M
3. RD Mgr
  5M
MEDIXGRAPHJOB
1. CEO / Co-Founder
  1Y 6M
CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMSJOB
1. RD Dir
  2Y 5M
TSINGHUA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (THAA-NC)JOB
1. President
  1Y
SPRINGSOFTJOB
1. RD Mgr
  3Y 2M
2. Principle RD Eng
  1Y 8M
NOVASJOB
1. Senior RD Eng
  1Y 6M
INTEL CORPORATIONJOB
1. Summer Intern
  4M

Job: Novas — Senior RD Engineer · 2006-07 – 2008-01 — • Key contributor for the core event-driven simulation engine in the Siloti product line. • https://www.synopsys.com/verification/debug/siloti.html
Job: Landing AI — Director of AI Transformation · 2019-06 – 2020-11 — • Responsible for Business Development, Solution Architect, and Sales. • Hold accountable for the end-to-end pre-/post-sale process, and customer success. • Key contributor, deal-closer, and account manager for several large & complex deals. • Key driver for the Landing AI Social Distancing solution - https://tinyurl.com/yaj3n4ek • Solution architect, account owner, and project leader for several strategic enterprise customers, i including the engagement with one of the largest Pharma in the US. • Account owner and project leader of the engagement with one of the largest telecommunication enterprises in Taiwan. • Leader of the “new-vertical” group, responsible for new market/product develop…
Job: Scale AI — Director of AI-PM and Account Lead (GTM) · 2025-11 – present — Product – Lead the AI Product Management (AI-PM) team in driving Scale’s data strategy, including leaderboard planning, data asset development, and integration with customer workflows to enable model evaluation and improvement. GTM – Oversee Scale’s largest strategic accounts, managing demand generation, technical scoping, commercial execution, and researcher relationship development to drive adoption and long-term growth.
Job: SpringSoft — Principle RD Engineer · 2008-01 – 2009-09 — • Managed an international engineering team - US, France, and Taiwan. • Responsible for the technology assessment of the Certitude acquisition. • Inventor, leader, and product owner of the first Power-Aware Debugging Solution in the EDA industry, which supports both CPF and UPF IEEE standards. https://www.synopsys.com/verification/debug/verdi-power-aware-debug.html • This new product introduced a new revenue stream for the Verdi product line. • Winner of the 2011 Design Vision Award https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/designcon-announces-2011-designvision-award-winners-115127864.html • Manager and key contributor of the Certitude Verification Qualification product which utilizes mutati…
Job: Synopsys Inc — RD Manager · 2012-12 – 2013-05 — • Managed an international engineering team - US, France, and Taiwan. • Responsible for the technology assessment of the Certitude acquisition. • Inventor, leader, and product owner of the first Power-Aware Debugging Solution in the EDA industry, which supports both CPF and UPF IEEE standards. https://www.synopsys.com/verification/debug/verdi-power-aware-debug.html • This new product introduced a new revenue stream for the Verdi product line. • Winner of the 2011 Design Vision Award https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/designcon-announces-2011-designvision-award-winners-115127864.html • Manager and key contributor of the Certitude Verification Qualification product which utilizes mutati…
Job: Intel Corporation — Summer Intern · 2005-06 – 2005-10 — • Develop an implication-based silicon debugging tool
Job: Scale AI — Account Lead · 2025-08 – 2025-11 — Responsible for overseeing Scale’s largest strategic accounts, including demand generation, technical scoping, commercial execution, and researcher relationship management.
Job: Landing AI — Head of Product · 2020-11 – 2021-04 — • Responsible for the company-wide product organization • Key driver for the LandingLens product - Landing AI end-to-end visual inspection platform • Account owner for several large and strategic customers
Job: Synopsys Inc — RD Architect · 2013-05 – 2014-09 — • Responsible for leading the innovation team of the Verdi Debugging product group. • Key contributor, leader, and product owner of the first Analog-Mixed-Signal Debugging Solution in the EDA industry. [Verdi-AMS] https://www.synopsys.com/verification/debug/verdi-advanced-ams.html • This new product introduced a new revenue stream for the Verdi product line. • Key driver of the company-level UX/UI inter-product integration with Verdi framework.
Job: Cadence Design Systems — RD Director · 2014-10 – 2017-03 — • Responsible for the overall product strategy, roadmap, and execution management of the Conformal Formal Equivalence Checking product group. • Hold accountable for 3 strategic accounts - 2 in the US and 1 in Taiwan. • Key contributor for the next generation UX architecture. Completely refactored from the legacy TCL/TK code base to the latest QT + WebKit framework.
Job: Tsinghua Alumni Association of Northern California (THAA-NC) — President · 2013-07 – 2014-07 — 北加州清華校友會 http://www.tsinghua-nc.org/
Job: Synopsys Inc — Sr. Manager · 2018-10 – 2019-06 — • Responsible for leading the development of an internal AI data-analytic platform. • Key driver of integrating the AI platform into the existing Debugging product group. • Key contributor and driver for the company-level AI strategy, report to the CEO office.
Job: Scale AI — Staff Strategic Product Manager · 2024-10 – 2025-09 — • Led the development and commercialization of Scale’s first GenAI SaaS product – Frontier and Shadow Benchmarks – an API service now adopted by several frontier research labs. • Led the SPM effort for one of Scale’s largest strategic accounts, focusing on overseas demand generation, technical scoping, and managing researcher relationships.
Job: mediXgraph — CEO / Co-Founder · 2017-04 – 2018-10 — • Responsible for all the business development, sales, and operation functions. • Responsible for the design and development of the end-to-end deep-learning pipeline. The pipeline integrates the latest DL frameworks (Caffe, Tensorflow, Keras, CoreML) with several in-house developed tool kits such labeling and data management. This pipeline enables fast prototype and model deployment on various iOS devices. • Delivered several very popular mobile-vision/AI products in the biomedical domain. • Successfully licensed the core technology (DL model, pipeline, and iOS App) to several biomedical companies based in Silicon Valley, Taiwan, and the UK. • Delivered two AI-based visual inspection soluti…
Job: SpringSoft — RD Manager · 2009-09 – 2012-11 — • Managed an international engineering team - US, France, and Taiwan. • Responsible for the technology assessment of the Certitude acquisition. • Inventor, leader, and product owner of the first Power-Aware Debugging Solution in the EDA industry, which supports both CPF and UPF IEEE standards. https://www.synopsys.com/verification/debug/verdi-power-aware-debug.html • This new product introduced a new revenue stream for the Verdi product line. • Winner of the 2011 Design Vision Award https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/designcon-announces-2011-designvision-award-winners-115127864.html • Manager and key contributor of the Certitude Verification Qualification product which utilizes mutati…
Job: Landing AI — VP of Product · 2021-04 – 2024-10 — • Manage the company-wide Product organization. • Handle the product vision and development for LandingLens, the data-centric, end-to-end computer vision platform. • Oversee the product roadmap and manage relationships with our strategic partners. • Serve as the account owner for several large and strategic customers.
School: University of California, Santa Barbara — Ph.D, Electrical and Computer Engineering
School: Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business — California Program for Entrepreneurship
School: National Tsing Hua University — BS, EE

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ASICDebuggingVerilogSimulationsEDASoCVLSISystemVerilogAlgorithmsFPGAPerlSemiconductorsICDigital Signal ProcessorsEmbedded SystemsComputer VisionStrategic ThinkingUnixSystem on a Chip (SoC)

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