Specialties: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Computer Vision, Sensor Networks, Big Data, Machine Learning

Founder @ BlockSeer's mission is to build a unified foundation of transparency for the public Bitcoin ecosystem. Bitcoin is a revolutionary new technology that has the potential to enable many valuable new services that are fully trusted. Currently, there is a lack of clarity in bitcoin payments and transactions. By providing transparency of the Bitcoin blockchain and its participants, BlockSeer aims to reduce the level of disorder and chaos and increase the level of knowledge and analysis of the publicly accessible blockchain network. From August 2015 to Present (5 months) Advisor @ From September 2013 to August 2015 (2 years) Co-founder @ MaiCoin makes bitcoin simple and secure and provides wallet, brokerage, and merchant services. BlockSeer.com brings transparency to the blockchain. From July 2013 to August 2015 (2 years 2 months) CTO and Co-Founder @ Formerly Caralta Corporation. From October 2012 to July 2013 (10 months) EIR (Entrepreneur in residence) @ Provided consulting services for Dr. Kai-Fu Lee's investment company and portfolio companies. Built prototype iphone photo service for construction project management (builddoc.com). From April 2012 to September 2012 (6 months) CTO and Co-Founder @ At Seravia we make big data useful. We automate the collection, cleansing and connecting of data so that our clients can work with qualified and rich datasets. We use highly-scalable search and machine learning methods to simplify analyses and provide richer results. Built and lead the engineering team to acquire, process, analyze, and serve 100+ million business records. From April 2009 to March 2012 (3 years) Problem Solver @ Projects include face detection and recognition, feature extraction and classification, object (visual) similarity, and search engine marketing (SEM). For SEM, designed and built the system to automate and optimize millions of search keyword campaigns for like.com. Grew ad spend from zero to $10 million per year with a positive return on investment CEO Award at Like.com (2008) US Patents: #7809722, System and method for enabling search and retrieval from image files based on recognized information #7809192, System and method for recognizing objects from images and identifying relevancy amongst images and information #7783135, System and method for providing objectified image renderings using recognition information from images #7660468, System and method for enabling image searching using manual enrichment, classification, and/or segmentation #7657126, System and method for search portions of objects in images and features thereof #7657100, System and method for enabling image recognition and searching of images #7519200, System and method for enabling the use of captured images through recognition From June 2005 to April 2009 (3 years 11 months) Research Intern @ Worked on counting people with a camera sensor network. US Patent #6987885, Systems and methods for using visual hulls to determine the number of people in a crowd From June 2002 to September 2002 (4 months) Research Intern @ Worked on a real-time face detector for the Asimo humanoid robot. From June 2001 to September 2001 (4 months)

PhD and MS, Computer Science @ Stanford University From 1998 to 2005 BA, Chemistry and Physics @ Harvard University From 1994 to 1998 Danny Yang is skilled in: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Big Data, Start-ups, Computer Vision, Entrepreneurship, SEO, Distributed Systems, Hadoop, SEM, Algorithms, Mobile Applications, Web Applications, Mobile Devices, Image Processing