Yanxiang Deng
Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania
City of Troy, New York, United States
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Top SchoolYanxiang Deng is an assistant professor and mechanical engineering researcher with a decade of academic experience, currently based in Troy, New York and appointed at the University of Pennsylvania after a postdoctoral tenure at Yale. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer with a perfect 4.0 GPA and brings deep expertise at the intersection of automation and mechanics informed by earlier MS and BE degrees. His work blends rigorous experimental and computational methods developed across graduate research and teaching roles, with a track record of mentoring students and translating complex control and automation concepts into practical lab systems. Known for balancing high academic standards with collaborative research, he runs an active lab (yanxiangdenglab.org) that highlights interdisciplinary projects and applied outcomes. An uncommon trait: he pairs elite technical credentials with sustained teaching experience, having concurrently served as graduate teaching assistant while conducting doctoral research.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, 4.0 / 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, 4.0 / 4.0 at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteMaster of Science - MS, Automation, Master of Science - MS, Automation at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyBachelor of Engineering - BE, Automation, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Automation at Changsha University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (2)
variational-autoencoder3
deep-learning1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dyxmvp/seqExplorer
Jan 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 release, 36 commits, 34 pushes in 1 year 6 months
dyxmvp/Spatial_ATAC-seq
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 4 months
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