Diana Hu
Partner at Y Combinator
San Francisco Bay Area
About
Helping founders start startups
Experience
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Y Combinator (Full-time · 5 yrs 3 mos)
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Managing Partner
Jun 2026 - Present · 1 mo
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General Partner
Oct 2022 - Jun 2026 · 3 yrs 9 mos
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Visiting Partner
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos
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Director of Engineering, Head of AR Platform at Niantic, Inc.
2018 - 2020 · 2 yrs
Led Niantic's AR platform
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Co-founder & CTO (acquired by Niantic) at Escher Reality
2016 - 2018 · 2 yrs
Built the most advanced Augmented Reality API
A Y Combinator S17 company
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Data Science Lead (OnCue TV acquired by Verizon Labs) at Verizon Labs
2014 - 2016 · 2 yrs
Led ML and CV group for recommender systems and automatic TV ad detection
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Intel Corporation (2 yrs 7 mos)
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Data Science Tech Lead
2013 - 2014 · 1 yr
Led data science for Intel's spin-off for OnCue TV
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Research Analyst for the Chief of Product
2012 - 2013 · 1 yr
3rd engineering leadership rotation – executive briefings, white papers, keynotes
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Research Engineer at Intel Labs
Jan 2012 - Jul 2012 · 7 mos
2nd engineering leadership rotation – large scale ML distributed systems and HPC