Junfeng Yang

@junfengy

Professor @Columbia, PhD in CS @Stanford, serial founder

cs.columbia.edu/~junfeng Joined June 2009

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Latest posts 5

Many thanks to Chieh Huang for joining Columbia’s “Build an Agent Startup” seminar! Inspiring stories on connecting the dots and caring for the people behind the business. We ran out of time for “hustle and grind.” A good excuse to invite him back! #Entrepreneurship

Junfeng Yang @junfengy Oct 23

Thanks to Jin Zhang, Ryan Luo, Yogesh Patil, Manas Gupta & Madison Hall for joining Columbia’s “Build an Agent Startup” seminar! Lean methodology, first PR to nearly 100 customers, and balancing AI research with customer needs.

Congrats to AegisAI on raising ~$50M! #AIAgents

Junfeng Yang @junfengy Oct 15

Many thanks to Columbia alum Riyaan Bakhda from August for joining our “Build an Agent Startup” seminar! Great insights on agent customization, evals, model upgrades, and token credits.

A pleasure having you with us, Riyaan!

#AIAgents #ColumbiaUniversity

Junfeng Yang @junfengy Oct 7

Many thanks to Columbia/Barnard alumni Apoorv Agarwal, @ketan_jog & Marina Senderos Garcia of Arata AI for sharing their tried-and-tested CAB approach to customer discovery in our Build an Agent Startup seminar! Our student founders can put it to work as they launch.

Junfeng Yang @junfengy Sep 30

Huge thanks to @sriramkri for joining our Build an Agent Startup seminar at Columbia! Great insights on agents, robotics, vertical AI, and how his team evaluates startups, plus feedback on student projects and consumer GTM. Lots for our student founders to put into practice!