XiaoyangÂ
Computer Scientist
Summary
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RockstarXiaoyang is a computer scientist with seven years of hands-on experience building backend tools and open-source utilities. Currently an undergraduate computer science student at USC, they focus on practical engineering—recently contributing backend improvements to the rebiber project to normalize and update BibTeX entries and package the tool for pip. Xiaoyang combines academic curiosity with production-minded development, improving data interoperability across bibliographic sources and automating error resolution. Their work shows an attention to tooling and developer ergonomics that goes beyond typical student projects.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
argparse10
bibtex10
python10
bibliography10
json9
pip8
machine-learning4
natural-language-processing4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yuchenlin/rebiber
Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
A simple tool to update bib entries with their official information (e.g., DBLP or the ACL anthology).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 37 commits, 4 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Xiaoyang primarily focused on developing and refining the back-end functionality of the `rebiber` tool. Their contributions involved modifying `bib2json.py` and `normalize.py` to process and normalize BibTeX entries, including updating the output format and incorporating an argument parser. Further work included setting up a pip module for the project. These changes aimed to improve the tool's ability to integrate with other bib databases and resolve errors.
dblppythonbibliographyarxivbib
ctcusc/gladeo
Nov 2019 - May 2020
Typescript + React Native, Node.js+Express, Airtable
Contributions:85 commits, 20 PRs, 74 pushes in 6 months
reactreact-nativenode-jsnode-nativeexpress
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