Yanan Wang
Senior Software Developer I at Lessen
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYanan Wang is a senior software developer based in Chicago with eight years of experience building API-driven solutions and production software. Currently at Lessen, she progressed from Software Developer II to Senior Software Developer I, delivering client-facing APIs and reliable backend systems. Her background blends applied research and engineering—she holds a PhD in Computational Materials Science and completed an MS in Computer Science at Georgia Tech after researching triboelectric behaviors of nonwoven fabrics. That research-driven mindset informs her pragmatic approach to problem solving, data-informed design, and prototyping. She also lists experience as a research engineer at KDDI Research, signaling comfort at the intersection of industry R&D and product development. Colleagues can expect an engineer who moves fluidly between scientific rigor and shipping scalable software.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Materials Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Materials Science at North Carolina State UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Engineering, Bachelor's degree Engineering at Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Chinese, English, French, Japanese
Github Skills (31)
language-understanding10
nlp8
foundation-models8
natural-language-processing8
multimodal8
chatbot7
scene6
bert6
pytorch6
extraction5
chatgpt5
uiviewcontroller4
llama4
graph4
datasets4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wangyanan326/Additional-EmotiW-dataset
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:25 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
yanan1989/yanan1989.github.io
Sep 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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