About Us

Jeremy Yao, ’20CBS/SEAS

Jeremy pursued a dual M.S. degree from Columbia Business School and Columbia Engineering, where he specialized in the field of machine learning. He is passionate about the intersection of fashion and Artificial Intelligence on which he extensively researched at UCL, where he undertook his undergraduate studies. As the Chief Technology Officer of Changing Room, he benefits from his prior experience working on projects at Louis Vuitton and Rent the Runway combining data analytics to supply chain logistics. By co-founding Changing Room, he is eager to advance the fashion industry towards more sustainable social and environmental practices namely thanks to data science.

Changing Room aims to empower consumers into making informed sustainable purchases and elevating environmental transparency within the fashion industry. Changing Room measures the environmental impact of individual garments throughout the production line and provides a marketplace where consumers can compare and shop for garments based on eco-friendliness indicators. Jeremy explores the paradigm between individual incentives and collective outcomes, in light of the global climate crisis, in his TEDx talk.