---
title: "Walden Yan"
category: "people"
role: "Co-founder & CPO"
company: "Cognition"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/waldenyan"
twitter: "https://x.com/walden_yan"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Walden Yan

## Profile
Co-founder & CPO at [[cognition|Cognition]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/waldenyan)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/walden_yan)

## Biography
Walden Yan is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of [[cognition|Cognition]], the AI lab behind Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer. He helped shape Devin from an early research project into a product now deployed across some of the world's largest enterprises. Before [[cognition|Cognition]], Walden was a gold medalist for the United States at the International Olympiad in Informatics and studied Computer Science and Economics at Harvard.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-nader-khalil-model-routing]] — Model Routing (2026-07-01, 3:20pm-3:40pm)
- [[2026-07-01-nader-khalil-model-routing-3-45pm-4-05pm-track-4-549]] — Model Routing (2026-07-01, 3:45pm-4:05pm)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-nader-khalil-model-routing|Model Routing]]
- [[2026-07-01-nader-khalil-model-routing-3-45pm-4-05pm-track-4-549|Model Routing]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-84Vtz2IL1Ug` — 2 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-84Vtz2IL1Ug`: llama, open, efficient, foundation, language, models, alpaca, strong.
- Evidence links for `youtube-84Vtz2IL1Ug`: [[youtube-84Vtz2IL1Ug]], [[youtube-84Vtz2IL1Ug-slides]], [[youtube-84Vtz2IL1Ug-dense-slides]], [[youtube-84Vtz2IL1Ug-reconstructed-slides]]