Yang Zhong
Founder & CEO | Activate Fellow | Forbes 30U30 | TIME Best Inventions
- Role
- Fellow at Activate
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Yang Zhong
I earned my PhD from MIT, where I worked with Evelyn N. Wang and Gang Chen on water…
Experience
Fellow
Jul 2024 — Present · NY, US
Founded in 2015, Activate empowers scientists and engineers to reinvent the world by launching startups to address climate change and other global challenges. Working between government, philanthropy, universities, and the private sector, Activate transforms scientists and engineers into high-impact entrepreneurs through the Activate Fellowship, a two-year immersive experience that equips science entrepreneurs with the skills, networks, infrastructure, and funding they need to quickly and effectively bring their groundbreaking research to market. Activate is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and does not charge any fee nor equity for fellows to participate. Activate’s entrepreneurial fellowship model originated at Cyclotron Road, founding Activate partner and the first U.S. Department of Energy\'s Lab Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) started at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Activate supports fellows in communities across the U.S: Activate Berkeley, Activate Boston, Activate New York, Activate Houston, and Activate Anywhere. Learn more at Activate.org.
Education
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering & Zhiyuan Honors Degree
2014 — 2018
Purdue University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering
2016 — 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2018 — 2021
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering
2018 — 2021
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Minor in Finance
2021 — 2024
Skills
- Javascript
- Microsoft Office
- Gulp
- Ni Labview
- Comsol
- Arduino
- Finite Element Analysis
- Molecular Dynamics
- Matlab
- Numerical Simulation
- Solidworks
- Heat Transfer
- Image Processing
- R
- C++
- Design for Manufacturing
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (Cfd)
- Machine Learning
- Data Analysis
- Sql
- Linux
- Siemens Nx
- Lammps
- Python
- Latex
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