QuackTech Innovation

Formalizing Research Judgment with AI

We build AI systems that learn how scientists evaluate research — turning years of tacit expertise into explicit, evolving judgment frameworks.

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Capabilities

What We Build

AI-driven systems that capture, formalize, and operationalize the evaluative frameworks scientists use to identify promising research directions.

Research Judgment Systems

Structured evaluation frameworks that capture a scientist's criteria for promising research directions, making tacit expertise explicit and reproducible.

AI-First Research Infrastructure

Complete research loop from literature discovery and hypothesis generation to experimental planning — with taste models serving as directional filters at each stage.

Dynamic Calibration

Judgment standards that evolve through iterative human-AI collaboration — distinct from static reward models or community-level bibliometric signals.

Methodology

How It Works

Our approach centers on a specific challenge: scientific taste is typically tacit, accumulated through years of domain immersion, and resistant to direct articulation.

Extract

We work closely with domain scientists to surface and formalize their evaluative criteria through structured collaboration.

Calibrate

Each round of feedback refines the system, producing increasingly accurate research direction assessments.

Evolve

The evaluation framework itself improves with use, adapting as research priorities sharpen through discovery.

Team

Who We Are

Yan Wang

Founder & Principal Scientist

Columbia PhD in Electrical Engineering. Building AI systems that bridge the gap between scientific intuition and computational methods.

Former Staff Applied Scientist at Samsara · Staff ML Engineer at Pinterest · Senior SDE at Microsoft

Research Collaborators

University Partners

Ongoing research collaborations with leading university labs in applying AI methodology to experimental sciences.

Industry Advisors

Technology & Strategy

Advisors from top technology companies providing guidance on product strategy, engineering infrastructure, and scaling AI systems.