Derek Zhang
Derek Zhang / Beauty, intelligence & craft

Beauty in the
age of intelligence.

Sculptural brain in forest-green patinated bronzeA sculptural brain disperses into pixels and reforms around your pointer.FORM / INTELLIGENCE / CRAFT
01 / A STUDY OF INTELLIGENCEMove or touch to explore

Research & things built.

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Sky Lab

Benchmarking how AI agents use tools on long-tail tasks.

BERKELEY SKY COMPUTING LAB

Long-tail tool-use benchmarking with Huanzhi Mao and Prof. Gonzalez.

ShopTrackAnalytics

Retail analytics hardware, built for small businesses.

90% LOWER DEVICE COST · 20+ CLIENTS

An analytics device at 90% lower cost than enterprise tools, with approximately 20% client EBIT lift.

Lobster Cup

A place for people who make things to come together.

5,000+ ATTENDEES · 50 GLOBAL TEAMS

Robotics Fair 2026, built through Basement Developers, with speakers from Stanford, NVIDIA, and Google.

Professional experience

Work.

01 / Consulting

Bain & Company

Associate Consultant Intern · Private Equity Group

Commercial diligence across AI, data center infrastructure, and industrial technology.

Mapped compute expansion to cooling demand, assessed infrastructure markets, and used expert interviews to test the assumptions behind investment decisions.

02 / Cloud infrastructure

Guepard

Business & Valuation Intern

Business strategy for a cloud infrastructure startup.

Built a market comparables dashboard and developed a three-year go-to-market capital plan and investor deck supporting a $2.1M pre-seed raise.

Iris Murdoch
The Sovereignty of Good

Beauty is the thread. Murdoch’s ideas about attention and unselfing shape how I think about it—from a well-made object to the care we bring to AI and technology.

Original conceptual illustrations · AI, tool use, small business, robotics.