Yudong Cao

Yudong Cao is currently the CTO at Zapata AI and a Founding Scientist. With a background in computer science and mechanical engineering, Yudong's research has focused on quantum computing, specifically quantum algorithms and quantum complexity theory. Yudong has worked at various prestigious institutions such as Harvard University, Purdue University, UC Berkeley, and University of Waterloo. Yudong's dissertation work at Purdue University was on quantum computing, and has also completed a CTO program at Wharton Executive Education.