Athena Yap earned her master’s degree in business administration in Aviation from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Florida) and her B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University. Her areas of expertise are machine learning, neural networks, and deep learning. She also obtained AI and data science certifications through Stanford University and Deeplearning.ai. She is an author and entrepreneur who started her pet food manufacturing business for the well-being of dogs, over a decade in operations and thriving.