# Mylene Yao

> Mylene Yao is co-founder, director, and CEO of Univfy, a Los Altos-based healthcare AI company that builds personalized IVF success prediction models. A board-certified OB/GYN trained at the University of Toronto, McGill, and Harvard, she was a Stanford faculty member running an NIH-funded embryo development lab before spinning her prediction research out with statistician Wing H. Wong. Univfy's models tell patients their individual odds of having a baby with IVF, and pair the prediction with financing so more people can actually pursue treatment.

- **Role:** Co-founder, Director, and CEO at Univfy
- **Organizations:** Univfy, Stanford University (former faculty), Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard University (former)
- **From:** Toronto, Canada
- **Nationality:** Canadian-American
- **Education:** M.D., University of Toronto, OB/GYN residency, McGill University, Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility; postdoctoral training in developmental biology (Maas lab), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Univfy, developing patented machine learning models for personalized IVF success prediction, Led NIH-funded fertility and embryo genetics research as Stanford OB/GYN faculty, Co-authored the Infertility chapter in Berek and Novak's Gynecology

## Career timeline

- **1998-2001** — Clinical subspecialty and postdoctoral training at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University
- **2003** — Joined Stanford University faculty; established embryo development research lab
- **2009** — Co-founded Univfy with statistician Prof. Wing H. Wong, based on patented Stanford prediction technology
- **2013** — Launched Univfy PreIVF Report, the first commercial personalized IVF prediction product
- **2017** — Named to MM+M's Top 40 Healthcare Transformers
- **2021-12** — Univfy closed Series B financing round ($6M)

## Achievements

- Co-founded Univfy, developing patented machine learning models for personalized IVF success prediction
- Led NIH-funded fertility and embryo genetics research as Stanford OB/GYN faculty
- Co-authored the Infertility chapter in Berek and Novak's Gynecology
- Named to MM+M's Top 40 Healthcare Transformers (2017)
- Raised over $22M in total funding for Univfy across Series A and B rounds

## Latest updates

- **2021-12** — Univfy closed a $6M Series B round; total funding now above $22M.
- **2024-11** — Published paper in Journal of Personalized Medicine on patient-centric IVF prognostic counseling using machine learning.

## Links

- Website: https://univfy.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mylene-yao-m-d-049a2915/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/myleneyao
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/fertilitypredict

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