Cohort 11

Zhen Yang

Engineers and engineering leaders who build, deploy, and scale software systems.

Applying AI tools and techniques to professional workflows — assign alongside more specific AI topics.

Designing and optimizing the context window for LLM applications — prompt structure, memory, and information retrieval.

Bring a useful problem. Leave with an AI system you can use, explain, and keep improving—and a repeatable way to build the next one.

Cornell PhD · ex Statsig—acq. by OpenAI

Statsig

Amazon

Tencent Games

Yuzheng Sun, PhD

Cornell PhD · Amazon, Meta, Tencent Director · Statsig (acquired by OpenAI)

Columbia PhD · 40 AI papers · 3K+ cites

Yan Wang, PhD

Columbia PhD · 40 AI papers · 3,000+ citations · Microsoft, Pinterest

AI Builders 2027: Build Useful Things with AI

Superlinear Academy

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<ul class="list-disc ml-8"><li><p class="p2-tall">Develop fluency in building AI applications, with a strong focus on production-grade best practices; </p></li><li><p class="p2-tall">Continuously explore and experiment with emerging AI tools to deliver real-world projects; </p></li><li><p class="p2-tall">Deeply understand AI agent capabilities and constraints to enable secure, scalable, and enterprise-ready deployments.</p></li></ul>
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