About

Networks, all the way down.

I'm Yaniv Proselkov. My PhD at Cambridge's Institute for Manufacturing asked a simple question about complicated systems: how much do the parts of a network need to know about each other for the whole to stay resilient? The answer — surprisingly little — turned into new AI models for telecoms and supply-chain finance, and a way of thinking I've applied ever since.

Today I work on three fronts. As an AI Engineer at AIOS I build modular AI workflows and educational skill pipelines. As Director of Research at Global Cambridge I write the strategy for how a science-led city produces, funds and retains its startups, synthesising a community of over a thousand founders, investors and academics. And as a co-founder of Venture Scholar Studio I teach entrepreneurship to international students inside real ventures.

Before that: quantitative finance research at Fasanara Capital, a venture associate role via VC Lab, and a six-year doctoral stretch in the Supply Chain AI Lab where I co-authored papers on financial ripple effects, decentralised criticality and autonomous supply chains. I speak and lecture on all of it — in English, and in Chinese with an interpreter.

Outside work I hold a 1st Dan black belt in Shotokan karate and compete in ballroom and Latin dance — the 61st Inter-Varsity Championships in Blackpool, most recently.

• Education

  PhD Engineering — University of Cambridge (2019–2025). Institute for Manufacturing | Christ's College. Thesis: Scalable Autonomous Network Control using Minimally Informed Agents. Full scholarship (EPSRC & BT Prosperity Partnership; Cambridge EPSRC-DTP Award).

  MSc Engineering Mathematics — University of Bristol (2017–2019). Distinction; "Best Student" award. Industrial project optimising the Royal Mail National Distribution Centre — docking-time efficiency up 16%.

  BSc (Hons) Mathematics — University of Bristol (2014–2017). Thesis on bounds of the 3-state misanthrope interacting particle system.

• Experience

  AI Engineer — AIOS (Dec 2025 – present). Modular AI workflows, business development, educational skill-development pipeline.

  Director of Research — Global Cambridge (Aug 2025 – present). Ecosystem strategy and open-innovation reports drawn from a 1,100-person community; partnerships; lecturing on innovation paradigms.

  Co-Founder — Venture Scholar Studio (May 2025 – present). Entrepreneurship programme for international students inside real startups; first cohort completed with Global Cambridge and Linkly.

  Expert Speaker — Cambridge Education International Centre (May 2024 – present). Lectures and workshops on AI, business, supply chain, finance and complexity, in English and Chinese.

  Venture Associate — Blue Impact Supply Chain Ventures (Apr–Jul 2025). Mapped the US supply-chain incubator landscape and LP network; advised a medtech to ~£500k in letters of intent within two weeks.

  Co-Founder — Diogenes Forum (Jan–Jun 2023). Academic media group and salon; 6 articles, 7 interviews; Ian McTaggart Grant.

  Doctoral Researcher — Supply Chain AI Lab, IfM, Cambridge (Oct 2019 – May 2025). Six peer-reviewed papers; organised conferences and workshops; international speaker.

  Quantitative Finance Researcher — Fasanara Capital (Dec 2018 – Oct 2019). AI risk models for P2P supply-chain and SME financing; debtor–supplier network pipeline; whitepapers on systemic risk.

• Ventures & programmes

  • Bluedot AGI Strategy Course (2025)
  • Silkwork, Accelerate Cambridge, Judge Business School (2025) — AI recruitment platform; team of 12; partnerships with KIMEP, Satbayev and Nazarbayev universities
  • EnterpriseTECH, Judge Business School (2023)
  • Monadrix, CRoSS, Cambridge Enterprise (2022) — AI fintech for cofounder-based quant financing
  • Como Advanced Studies School, Fondazione Alessandro Volta (2022)
  • Yapros, Impulse, Maxwell Centre (2021) — deeptech incubator; scientific collaboration network

• Funding & awards

  • Cambridge Philosophical Society Research Studentship Funding Award (2024)
  • Winner — 3 Minute Supply Chain Thesis Competition, Anglia Ruskin (2024)
  • Ian Mactaggart Programme Student Society Award (2023)
  • CRoSS Ideas Incubator Bursary Award (2023)
  • EPSRC & BT Prosperity Partnership: NG-CDI, Grant EP/R004935/1 (2019)
  • UK EPSRC-DTP Award, Grant EP/R513180/1 (2019)
  • Engineering Mathematics MSc Best Student Award (2019)

• Volunteering & interests

  • BANGTech Space Program — teaching kids tech entrepreneurship via gamified residentials in the UK and UAE
  • EnterpriseTECH Buddy; Innovation Forum — led the Cambridge branch in 2021
  • Karate — 1st Dan, Shotokan; 5th Kyu, Goju Ryu. Ballroom & Latin — Bronze; 61st Inter-Varsity Dance Championships, Blackpool (2024)
  • Languages — English (native), Russian (beginner)

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