Samuel Yang
AI Researcher at Noah's Ark Lab
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Yang is an AI researcher and dual-major Computer Science and Psychology student at the University of British Columbia with 11 years of professional experience across research, software engineering, and QA. He has moved rapidly from internships and teaching assistantship roles into applied research at Noah’s Ark Lab, bringing hands-on expertise in machine learning, full-stack development, and database-backed systems. Samuel pairs rigorous software practices—Agile and test-driven development—with practical delivery experience from companies like Optum and Qatalyst Research Group. He also mentors peers and students as a former TA, and his background in psychology gives him an edge in designing human-centered machine learning solutions. Outside academic and engineering settings he’s tackled fast-paced operational work, demonstrating a capacity for high-throughput, detail-oriented tasks.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Psychology, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Psychology at The University of British ColumbiaAssociate of Science - AS Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS Computer Science at Langara College
Github Skills (9)
playing10
discord-bot9
discord-js9
discord9
to-do9
rendering9
music9
latex9
permission9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Optykan/Tzuyu
Apr 2017 - Jul 2021
A discord bot built on discord.js that supports playing music, permission management (ish), and rendering LaTeX. It also has support for user-developed plugins, if you wanted to do such a thing
Contributions:247 commits, 14 PRs, 206 pushes in 4 years 3 months
discordbotdiscord-botlatexmusic-playing
Optykan/LolStats
Jun 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 320 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
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