Andy Yang
Cursor Campus Lead at MIT Political Science
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Yang is a software engineer and MIT CS/AI and Finance student with a decade of hands-on experience across machine learning research, AI policy, and software engineering internships at institutions like Google and MIT. He blends research-grade ML work—designing deep learning systems for PDE simulation and optimal transport on manifolds—with real-world product contributions, including documentation and bug fixes to the widely used Yosys open synthesis suite. Comfortable at the intersection of technology, policy, and entrepreneurship, Andy has translated technical insight into policy briefs for AI governance and expanded developer communities as a campus lead for Cursor. His leadership roots trace to civic programs where he served as State Speaker and Attorney General at Palmetto Boys State, reflecting a rare combination of technical depth, public-facing communication, and civic engagement.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science and Finance, BS Computer Science and Finance at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologySTEM Scholar with Honors, STEM Scholar with Honors at Dutch Fork High School
Chinese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
synthesis10
open-source10
yosys10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
documentation10
verilog7
python4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
YosysHQ/yosys
Sep 2018 - Jun 2019
Yosys Open SYnthesis Suite
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Bug Fixer
Technical Writer & Bug FixerContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to fixing typos and improving the clarity of help messages within the Yosys Open SYnthesis Suite. Their work focused on correcting documentation and minor code errors related to various commands, including `sim`, `verilog_write`, and `ice40_unlut`. They also addressed an issue with pyosys commands, ensuring correct return types. These contributions enhanced the user experience and documentation quality of the software.
synthesispythonsuiteyosys
csail-csg/riscy
Jul 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 207 commits, 4 PRs in 10 months
risc-vriscvriscprocessors
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