Yikang Luo
Applied AI Engineer at JPMorganChase
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolYikang Luo is an Applied AI Engineer with nine years of experience building production AI systems that scale to tens of millions of users, blending a quantitative finance foundation with deep ML and data engineering expertise. He has led end-to-end deployments across NLP, recommendation systems, OCR, and LLM-powered workflows, and drove AI transformation at enterprise scale by delivering dozens of real-world scenarios and mentoring teams. Notable work includes architecting a vLLM-powered creative analytics platform analyzing 500M+ social videos and integrating RAG, Elasticsearch, and Airflow for real-time ad creative recommendations. Comfortable at the intersection of product and research, he focuses on making AI accessible, trustworthy, and useful—especially where clarity and user trust matter. Trained in math, financial engineering, and data science at Beloit College and UIUC, he combines systems thinking with empathy to shape strategy as well as ship features. Based in New Jersey, he often bridges technical rigor with storytelling to help organizations find signal in noisy data.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science: Data Science, Master's degree Computer Science: Data Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics at Beloit College
English, Japanese, Chinese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
186reputation
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9answers
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Github Skills (128)
controller10
pokemongo10
entity10
sublime-text9
document-classification9
semantic-parsing9
part-of-speech9
django-admin9
nlp9
datasets9
python9
telegram9
speech9
tagging9
named-entity-recognition9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
uiucCme/Practicum
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:49 commits, 7 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 months
luoy2/yys_lua_script
Jan 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:85 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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