Peter Yang is a B.Math (Honours Co-op) student at the University of Waterloo. At 15, he became the youngest founder accepted into The Forge startup incubator, launching Reviewerly—an IG Reels app featured on the Shopify App Store that reached 144 paying users. He wrote *The Art of Writing*, an Amazon bestseller with over 5,000 copies sold, and delivered a TEDx talk on optimism that surpassed 100,000 views. Peter also built a web platform for more than 70 local businesses, increasing their combined online traffic by 50%, and was named a finalist for the Thiel Fellowship (0.1% acceptance rate). Currently, he’s researching c‑closed graphs in graph theory and how they might apply to social networks. Outside of academics, he keeps an active Goodreads profile, shares occasional videos on YouTube, and enjoys Russian literature, history, and social science.

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  Toronto, Ontario, Canada