Summary
Aidan San is a researcher-engineer and Dean's Scholar Fellow at the University of Virginia with 11 years of hands-on experience building software and teaching computer science. He pairs PhD-level research in computer science with practical industry experience from internships at Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, GRAIL, and others, working across applied machine learning, automation, and tooling. As an instructor of record he has led large programming and discrete math courses, demonstrating an ability to translate complex technical ideas to diverse audiences at scale. His background in both CS and linguistics (BSLAS) informs a pragmatic, data-driven approach to language and translation problems as well as systems design. Outside formal roles he maintains a public portfolio at aidansan.github.io, signaling a disciplined focus on reproducible projects and documentation.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BSLAS Computer Science + Linguistics, BSLAS Computer Science + Linguistics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Virginia