Michael J. Yuan

Trained as an astrophysicist, I have always been a scientist at heart. I started my career as an open source developer at JBoss. After the successful exit of JBoss (acq'ed by Red Hat), I went back to academia and was awarded several million dollars in research funding from the NIH (National Institutes of Health) to study digital healthcare. I am now once again working on an open source startup to build the next generation infrastructure for AI agents on the edge and in the cloud. I am

• 🦄 Founder and maintainer of Linux Foundation / CNCF's WasmEdge and LlamaEdge projects.
• 🌱 Builder on Gaia, a network of over 200k AI-based knowledge agents.
• 💰 Venture Partner at SIG Ventures investing in early stage tech and crypto teams.
• 📚 Author of 6 books on software engineering, and many articles and papers.
• 🧬 Principal Investigator (PI) for several NIH (National Institutes of Health) funded research projects.

Fun facts about me:

• 🔭 My PhD dissertation was about super-massive blackholes in QSOs.
• 🗞 I once published an article on the New York Times.

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