Ian Shi

Co-Founder @ Blank Bio (YC S25)

Co-founder

Blank Bio· Summer 2025 🇨🇦 Canada

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @ianshi3

2025Co-founder· Blank Bio (YC S25)

Founder · since 2025

Company

Blank Bio (YC S25)

Role

Co-Founder

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Blank Bio

RNA intelligence for precision medicine

Summer 2025

Experience

Career

Blank Bio (YC S25)
Co-founder
Co-Founder · 2025 – Present
2025
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Graduate Research Assistant · New York, United States · 2024 – 2025
2024
Vector Institute
Graduate Researcher · Toronto, Canada Area · 2019 – 2025
2019
Amazon
Applied Science Intern · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2024
2024
Pinterest
Research Intern · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2022
2022
Amazon
Software Development Engineer I · Vancouver, Canada Area · 2018 – 2019
2018
University of Toronto
Undergraduate Student Researcher · Toronto, Canada Area · 2016 – 2018
2016
University of Toronto
Undergraduate Student Researcher · Toronto · 2015 – 2017
2015
Amazon
Software Engineer Intern · Vancouver, Canada Area · 2017
2017
National Institutes of Health
Research Volunteer · Bethesda, Maryland · 2015
2015

Bio

Building foundational models for RNA therapeutics at Blank Bio. Just defended my PhD in CS at the University of Toronto. Published at ICML, NeurIPS, Nature Comms; used 4 GPUs to pre-train an mRNA foundation model that beat competitors using months of compute on thousands of H100s. Now scaling our models to unlock new possibilities in the RNA therapeutic space. Previously at Amazon building software, interned at Pinterest and Amazon as a research scientist in between.