KronosAI

Meet the Team

Yujie Huang

Co-Founder, CEO

EECS, UC Berkeley

Co-founded 3, been a part of 6 startups. 10 years of experience building AI products across: reinforcement learning, security, computer vision, and foundation models.

Eric Ma

Co-Founder, CSO

Asst. Prof., UC Berkeley

Applied physicist with broad expertise in wave-matter interaction and multi-physics inverse design. Google Research Scholar. Amazon Physical Science Fellow. Formerly senior scientist at Apple.

Fei Wang

Co-Founder

PhD, UF

20 years of experience building AI products. 4 startups. Led one to IPO.

James O'Brien

Co-Founder

Prof., UC Berkeley

Won an Oscar for making the finite element method based physics simulations accessible to the movie industry. Co-founder and chief science officer for a number of companies.

Ziyi Francis Yin

Member of Technical Staff

PhD, Georgia Tech

Scientific ML researcher with extensive experience in AI-accelerated numerical simulation and statistical inference. Formerly research geophysicist in the oil and gas industry.

Yang Deng

Member of Technical Staff

PhD, Duke

AI for Science researcher with experience in electromagnetic inverse design and physics-informed learning. Formerly a CEM and photonics engineer in semiconductor and consumer electronics.

Zhongkai Hao

Member of Technical Staff

Tsinghua University

AI for science researcher, interested in generative models and reinforcement learning. Author of DPOT and GNOT.

Saul Perlmutter

Adviser

Prof., UC Berkeley

Computational physicist and data scientist. Shared the 2011 Nobel for discovering the accelerated expansion of the universe.

Kostya Novoselov

Adviser

Prof., NUS

Pioneer of AI applications in physics research. Shared the 2010 Nobel for experimental work on graphene.

Oreste Donzella

Adviser

EVP and CSO, KLA Corporation

Semiconductor industry veteran with over three decades of experience in semiconductor manufacturing and capital equipment companies, holding various engineering and leadership positions at Texas Instruments, Micron Technology and KLA Corporation.