Catherine Yeo

Catherine is an engineer, writer, comic, and human being who dies a little more inside every time someone calls her an extrovert.

Currently:
👩🏻‍💻 software engineer at Warp, the modern terminal
✍️ writing personal, satirical, and technical essays
🎤 performing stand-up comedy in NYC

Previously:
🚀 built AI products at Disney, IBM Research, and MIT + co-founded startups in consumer social and AI ethics advocacy
💫 wrote an embarrassing amount of Star Wars fanfiction, sold writing & art as a Tumblr creator (400K+ audience), and published nonfiction book The Creator Revolution (New Degree Press, 2022)
🎓 graduated from Harvard with a Bachelor's in Computer Science + English, Master's in Computer Science, and not enough sleep

Popular Pieces

2023.05.17 • HARVARD MAGAZINE
Time to Stand UpFor an Asian American woman, performing comedy is about much more than jokes.
2020.07.16 • TOWARDS DATA SCIENCE
Machine Learning’s Obsession with Kids’ TV Show CharactersElmo, Bert, and Marge (Simpson) aren’t just your favorite TV characters growing up. They’re also machine learning & NLP models.
2022.02.04 • SUBSTACK
Wikipedia's Struggle with CreatorsNotability, as its own notion, is inherently subjective. So where do creators fit in?