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Avi Yashchin

Founder and CEO at Subconscious AI

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Overview

Avi Yashchin is Founder and CEO at Subconscious AI [1][3], a company that creates synthetic populations to explain and predict human behavior [2]. Subconscious AI's platform replaces survey workflows with behavioral simulation and causal experimentation at scale, enabling organizations to backtest decisions across pricing, markets, psychology, public policy, elections, and consumer behavior [2]. Yashchin holds a BS in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins University [12] and an MBA in Finance and Quantitative Finance from NYU Stern School of Business [11]. Prior to founding Subconscious AI in January 2024 [3], Yashchin held roles including Principal Product Manager at Two Sigma [7], Senior Product Manager at IBM's T.J. Watson Research [8], and CEO and Founder of CleanEdison [9]. Yashchin also serves as Strategic Advisor at FutureProof Technologies [4].

Profile introduction
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Subconscious AI | Autonomous Research Systems We build always-on product, pricing, positioning, and strategy agents. Subconscious AI creates synthetic populations that explain and predict human behavior with quant-level rigor. Organizations use our systems to backtest decisions across pricing, markets, psychology, public policy, elections, and consumer behavior before deploying them in the real world. Think AlphaFold for human behavior. Our platform replaces slow, biased survey workflows with behavioral simulation and causal experimentation at scale. We combine high performance computing,…

Career history

  1. Founder and CEOJan 2024 to presentSubconscious AI
  2. Strategic AdvisorMay 2020 to presentFutureProof Technologies
  3. CIO, FounderSep 2020 to Aug 2022QumulusAI
  4. Portfolio ManagerJan 2020 to Sep 2020Engine No. 1
  5. Principal Product ManagerJan 2019 to Jan 2020Two Sigma
  6. Senior Product Manager, T.J. Watson ResearchJan 2016 to Dec 2018IBM
  7. CEO, FounderSep 2009 to Mar 2015CleanEdison
  8. Vice President, US Credit Portfolio ManagerJun 2002 to Oct 2008Lehman Brothers

Education

  1. MBA, Finance, Quantitative FinanceNYU Stern School of Business
  2. BS, Computer Science, Cognitive ScienceThe Johns Hopkins University

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