Yifan Wu is a skilled technologist with extensive experience in various roles within the tech industry. Currently, Yifan holds positions as a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI and Anthropic, focusing on research tools after contributing to the tokens team. Previously, Yifan co-founded Linea Labs, overseeing the transition from ideation to securing funding and growing the engineering team. Prior experiences include internships at Microsoft, where Yifan worked on video search optimization and user location understanding, and positions at Clever and Twitter, involving full-stack engineering and project management. Yifan also served as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University. Yifan holds a PhD in Database Systems and Human Computer Interaction from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in Computer Science and Economics from Harvard University.