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Jeff Tan Learned the Freight Business One Stubborn Document at a Time
Before he helped automate freight paperwork, Jeff Tan lived with its consequences. His route from Philippine forwarding floors to a San Francisco startup explains why Expedock was built around operations, not spectacle.
Yibiao Zhao
Yibiao Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of ISEE, an MIT spin-off in Cambridge, Massachusetts that builds self-driving yard trucks powered by a 'humanistic' AI grounded in cognitive science. A UCLA PhD in computer vision and former MIT postdoc in Joshua Tenenbaum's Computational Cognitive Science Group, Zhao bet that machines need common sense, not just pattern recognition, to navigate the messy real world. ISEE became the first company to run fully autonomous operations in logistics yards, completing more than 10,000 self-driving trailer moves for customers like Maersk and Lazer Spot, and raised $40 million in a 2022 Series B led by Founders Fund.