Chang focuses on AI infrastructure and applications. She enjoys diving into ML papers and learning new technologies to envision what markets can be transformed. She cofounded Onion Academy, an edtech startup in China that has since raised $90m, and was the first Product Manager at the Minerva Project — cementing her passion for startups and the creation of innovative products.
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A natural builder of mental models, Chang grew up loving math competitions, placing #5 nationally for American Mathematics Competitions (AMC). She built intuition with brute-force methods to uncover patterns, ultimately crafting the most elegant solution. This approach mirrors the startup journey: start with what doesn’t scale, iterate, automate, and dominate. At Harvard, she studied applied math, economics, and computer science. Her thesis on game theory and mechanism design explored multi-agent behavior in meeting scheduling.
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In her downtime, Chang enjoys strategy games and once completed a 266-piece, all-white puzzle with her husband during the COVID lockdown — an exercise in persistence and strategy that reflects her view of what it takes to build enduring companies.