Kevin Yang
Principal Researcher at Microsoft
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Yang is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England who applies machine learning to hard problems in protein engineering, building on a PhD from Caltech where he worked in Frances Arnold’s lab. He previously translated ML-driven protein design into industry impact as a machine learning scientist at Generate Biomedicines and has hands-on experience predicting human variant pathogenicity from an Ambry Genetics internship. Kevin’s background blends rigorous chemical engineering training with practical teaching experience through Teach For America, reflecting strong communication and mentorship skills alongside technical depth. Based in Cambridge, MA, he focuses on combining computational methods and experimental insight to evolve new protein functions—often leveraging ML techniques pioneered during his PhD that bridge biology and data-driven design.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Dublin CoffmanCalifornia Institute of TechnologyDublin Coffman High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS) Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The Ohio State University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (28)
azure-machine-learning10
compression10
azure10
data-science9
pytorch9
machine-learning9
inference9
mixture-of-experts9
gpu9
optimization9
deep-learning8
deepspeed8
ml8
data-parallelism7
logging7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Kaiming-Qu/orleans-docs
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Orleans documentation
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
orleans
Azure/azureml-examples
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
Official community-driven Azure Machine Learning examples, tested with GitHub Actions.
Contributions:4 reviews in 7 months
data-sciencemachine-learningazure-machine-learningazurecommunity-driven
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