Yankang Yang is Co-Founder at 83 Sciences, a YC S26-backed AI-native platform accelerating materials discovery for the next industrial revolution.

Yankang holds a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard Business School, bringing deep scientific and strategic expertise to the venture.

Yankang previously served as a fellow at MIT focused on commercializing IP out of the ecosystem and as a strategy manager at Sila Nanotechnologies, a battery materials unicorn.

Prior to co-founding 83 Sciences, Yankang was a consultant at Boston Consulting Group, where she developed cross-sector strategy and innovation expertise.

83 Sciences is tackling a critical gap in scientific R&D by capturing the 90% of experimental data that never gets published, enhancing proprietary datasets with AI to accelerate breakthrough materials research.