Xin Yang
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolXin Yang is a machine learning and computer vision specialist completing an MS in Computer Science at Columbia with a decade of engineering and research experience spanning academic TA roles and industry internships. He has built practical CV systems—from a virtual watch try-on prototype with motion-tracking and homography similarity algorithms to image segmentation optimizations—and contributes ML code publicly, notably enhancing a Chinese GPT-2 chitchat bot with MMI-based response selection. Comfortable in C/C++, Matlab, and modern ML toolchains, he combines strong academic performance with hands-on system design and performance-minded algorithm work. Based in New York, he also shares technical writing under the handle YeungNLP, signaling an interest in communicating research and tooling to broader audiences.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Computer Science, Vision and Graphics, GPA: 4.13/4.33, Master of Science in Computer Science, Vision and Graphics, GPA: 4.13/4.33 at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor Degree of Software Engineering, Software Engineering, GPA 90.79/100 (Major GPA 91.81/100), Bachelor Degree of Software Engineering, Software Engineering, GPA 90.79/100 (Major GPA 91.81/100) at Sun Yat-Sen UniversityHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Github Skills (8)
transformer10
pytorch10
gpt10
nlp10
python10
machine-learning9
chatbot8
chatterbot8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
yangjianxin1/GPT2-chitchat
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
GPT2 for Chinese chitchat/用于中文闲聊的GPT2模型(实现了DialoGPT的MMI思想)
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:24 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
Contributions summary:Xin primarily contributed to the development and modification of a GPT-2 based chatbot for Chinese chitchat. Their contributions included implementing a MMI (Mutual Matching Input) model for candidate response selection, indicating an effort to enhance the dialogue generation capabilities. They also addressed a bug in the model loading process and made minor adjustments to interact and train scripts. Finally the user updated the project structure.
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yangjianxin1/Firefly
Apr 2023 - Oct 2024
Firefly: 大模型训练工具，支持训练Qwen2.5、Qwen2、Yi1.5、Phi-3、Llama3、Gemma、MiniCPM、Yi、Deepseek、Orion、Xverse、Mixtral-8x7B、Zephyr、Mistral、Baichuan2、Llma2、Llama、Qwen、Baichuan、ChatGLM2、InternLM、Ziya2、Vicuna、Bloom等大模型
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 19 PRs in 1 year 6 months
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