Youyang Gu
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorYouyang Gu is a serial founder and engineer with 11 years of experience building data-driven products at the intersection of finance, healthcare, and public health. Based in New York, he co-founded WWR and runs MOG LLC after creating high-impact projects like YoloStocks, a real-time Reddit ticker analytics platform that earned coverage from major outlets. His background includes quantitative research and trading roles at Jump Trading and internships at Google and Tower Research, paired with an M.Eng. and S.B. from MIT in EECS. He has applied machine learning and AI to problems ranging from COVID-19 mortality modeling (WHO advisory) to operational analytics in healthcare and forecasting for covid19-projections.com. Curious by nature and habitually juggling multiple projects, he combines rigorous research experience with product-focused engineering to ship tools that surface real-time signals from noisy data.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (60)
simulation10
cdc10
atmospheric-modelling10
visualization10
simulator10
machine-learning10
standardized10
bootstrapping10
analytics10
groupme10
forecasts10
github-pages10
data-access10
nyc9
python8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
youyanggu/covid19-cdc-vaccination-data
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Historical CDC Vaccination Data (from https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations)
Contributions:452 commits, 452 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
cdc
youyanggu/covid19-forecast-hub-evaluation
Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
Evaluation of models from the COVID-19 Forecast Hub (https://github.com/reichlab/covid19-forecast-hub). These models are submitted weekly to the CDC to help inform public health decision-making.
Contributions:136 commits, 139 pushes, 4 comments in 9 months
cdc
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