Anna Zhang

Anna Zhang is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nessie, a Y Combinator-backed early-stage artificial intelligence startup focused on personal knowledge management. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Yale University in 2024, where her academic research centered on enhancing large language model reasoning through knowledge graph integration. Prior to founding Nessie, Zhang worked as a software development engineer within Amazon's recommendation service division. During her tenure at the multinational e-commerce company, she shipped machine learning-powered features that reached billions of customers globally. Furthermore, she led a technical experiment that successfully demonstrated a projected revenue impact of $200 million per year for the retail platform. Her current professional focus remains on leveraging her machine learning expertise to build systems that convert unstructured daily conversations into compounding digital knowledge.