Fang Yu

Co-founder and CPO

Fang Yu is the co-founder and chief product officer of DataVisor, the world’s leading provider of AI-powered fraud management solutions. Founded in 2013, DataVisor empowers enterprise clients across the globe to proactively detect and defeat the most sophisticated modern attacks through the use of proprietary unsupervised machine learning algorithms, powerful big data architecture, and a robust suite of modeling and analytics solutions.

Fang previously worked at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, where she supported teams for Hotmail, Bing, Xbox, and more, through the development of algorithms and systems focused on malicious traffic detection. Fang earned her Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and currently holds over 20 patents. An accomplished researcher, author, and conference contributor, Fang Yu is widely-regarded as one of the most influential figures in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data security.