#21: Amber Yang (Stanford) - On turning a high school science fair project into a startup

Founders Couch

This episode, we've got Stanford CS & Physics junior Amber Yang on the couch! Hailing from Orlando, FL, she is the founder and CEO of SeerTracking. SeerTracking originated as Amber's high school research project for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. She ended up winning the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award and later on that year, she was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. So far, the company has been working on creating a machine learning-based software capable of predicting space debris orbits for satellite collision avoidance and has been working on a pilot version with several satellite launch companies. Some questions we discuss...What inspired her to work on this idea for Intel? What made her incorporate? What were the most difficult challenges? How has COVID-19 affected her and the space industry? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/founderscouch/support