Section 07 · Team

Two founders, one problem, since 2018.

Both out of the University of Illinois ECE department — Jack Cui on the robot, Garrett Yan on the operation that has to run it every day.

Yummy Future store team in branded shirts behind the bar — Champaign
The Bench
Engineering · operations · in-store team — the people who keep the stores live.
JC
Jack Cui (Guangzhe Cui)
CO-FOUNDER · CEO

10 yrs robotics. B.S. EE / M.S. ECE, UIUC. Prior: Google hardware intern (2018), UIUC Advanced Digital Projects Lab.

GY
Garrett Yan (Yueming Yan)
CO-FOUNDER · COO

7 yrs engineering & operations. Master of Engineering, UIUC Grainger College of Engineering.

HO
Hao Ouyang
ROBOTICS

M.S., UC Berkeley. RoboCon — world champion. Robotics build at Yummy Future; also driving the Wefunder raise.

Around the founders is a small core team — robotics depth out of Berkeley, plus the store crews who open the doors, work the bar, and tell us what broke.

Source · Plan_G_v8_WefunderNative.html §Team (campaign-page/builds/) · photographs and text carried over verbatim, unedited