Zhun Yang
Software Engineer at Google
Tempe, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhun Yang is a software engineer at Google Health with nine years of experience building AI systems that prioritize interpretability and human-centered design. He holds a Ph.D. from Arizona State University where he advanced Neuro-Symbolic AI—integrating prior knowledge, logic programming, and recurrent Transformer extensions to enable explainable, multi-step reasoning. His research has been applied in industry internships at Meta, Sony, and VMware, where he delivered production-ready and prototype systems that automated labeling, troubleshooting, and knowledge-driven inference. At ASU he also taught graduate courses in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning and published practical toolkits and code on his lab GitHub, demonstrating a commitment to reproducible research. Colleagues know him for bridging deep research with engineering rigor—e.g., compiling symbolic knowledge into loss functions and integrating GPT-4 with symbolic methods for robust, explainable pipelines. Based in Tempe, AZ, he focuses on bringing neuro-symbolic advances into healthcare to make AI decisions more transparent and clinically actionable.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Security, Bachelor's degree, Information Security at Wuhan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Arizona State University
Github Skills (41)
nlp8
cython8
text-classification8
rubiks-cube7
artificial-intelligence7
named-entity-recognition7
language-processing7
machine-learning7
natural-language-processing7
fairness-ml7
turkish7
python7
corenlp6
neural6
transformer-architecture6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zhunyoung/clingoTutorial
Mar 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
azreasoners/cl-ste
Nov 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:5 commits in 6 months
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