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Catherine Yeo

Catherine Yeo

Software engineer, founder, and author (CS + English, Harvard)

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San Francisco Bay Area
Joined June 2025
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Summary

Technical AI researcher and engineer with hands‑on experience across academic and industry labs (MIT CSAIL, IBM Research, Walt Disney Studios) and product engineering internships at Apple; later transitioned to full‑time software engineering at Warp before co‑founding a stealth startup. mit+3
Founder and community builder focused on access and inclusion in tech: founded PixelHacks (high‑school hackathon series), led collegiate hackathon programs (HackHarvard, IvyHacks), and co‑founded consumer/education products (Sesame) during a gap year — demonstrating a pattern of building community‑oriented developer and creator products. pixeljournal+2
Writer and communicator who bridges technical and creative audiences: author of The Creator Revolution, maintains a Substack and personal writing portfolio, and has built an audience (writing and art sold to large online audiences) — regularly speaks and writes about creators, technology, and ethics. amazon+2
Focused on AI fairness and ethics education: taught/led workshops and served as a teaching fellow (CS96R: Machine Learning for Social Good), and ran Fair Bytes to make fairness research accessible to broader audiences. harvard+1

Work

Education

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Writing

The Creator Revolution: How Today's Creative Talents Are Shaping Our Tomorrow

January 1, 2022

Nonfiction book documenting the rise of online creators and the creator economy; based on interviews with hundreds of creators and analysis of creator-driven cultural/economic trends.

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Selected essays and newsletter writing (contemplating... / Substack)

January 1, 2021

Personal essays, reflections, and technical/creative writing on topics ranging from startup building, AI fairness, to personal growth (published on Substack and personal site).

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Hobbies

Stand‑up comedy and live performance (performed across NYC, SF, Boston) catherinehyeo

Creative writing (fiction and creative nonfiction) and online content creation substack+1

Notes

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