Yaoyu Yang, PhD, is the Founder and CEO of Cypher, building AI-native digital infrastructure for life sciences R&D. Previously, he was a Principal Software Engineer at Ginkgo Bioworks, where he spent eight years leading software tools that helped scale engineering biology programs used by hundreds of scientists. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Synthetic Biology from the University of Washington. His cross-disciplinary background gives him deep insight into the technical, experimental, and computational challenges faced by modern research teams, shaping his mission to modernize scientific infrastructure through entrepreneurship.