cv | Ian Yang

June 2024 - Present
Research Assistant

MinnesotaNLP, University of Minnesota
- Collaborating with Profs. Mingyi Hong and Dongyeop Kang in the MinnesotaNLP group.
- Working on interpretability reward shaping for RLHF.
Aug 2023 - Present
Research Assistant

Sofware and Societal Systems Department, Carnegie Mellon University
- Research assistant in the Usable Privacy Lab advised by Prof. Norman Sadeh.
- Exploring applications of NLP with respect to usable privacy and security.
Jan 2022 - Present
Research Assistant

Human-Centered AI Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Research assistant in the Entertainment Intelligence Lab advised by Prof. Mark Riedl.
- Working on NLP Normative Alignment.
May 2023 - Aug 2023
REU Student

Sofware and Societal Systems Department, Carnegie Mellon University
- Visiting researcher as part of the REUSE (Research Experience for Undergraduates in Software Engineering) program at CMU advised by Prof. Norman Sadeh. Poster presented at research symposium.
Apr 2021 - May 2022
Research Assistant

The Ohio State University
- Research assistant at The Ohio State University advised by Prof. Dong Xuan.
- Worked on a variety of projects related to ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition).

Aug 2022 - May 2024
CSE 6040 - Tutor

Master of Analytics, Georgia Tech
- Tutor for 1000+ students enrolled in CSE 6040, Computing for Data Analytics, in the Master of Analytics program.
Aug 2021 - May 2024
CS 1100 - Teaching Assistant

College of Computing, Georgia Tech
- Teaching Assistant for CS 1100, Freshman Leap Seminar.
Aug 2021 - May 2024
Peer Mentor

College of Computing, Georgia Tech
- Mentored 55 freshmen in their transition to the College of Computing at Georgia Tech.

Aug 2021 - May 2022
Software Development Intern

FlightBridge, Inc.
- Software engineering intern, crafting full-stack solutions to bugs and developed novel features. Key technologies used were ASP.NET, C#, SQL, Microsoft Azure, and Subversion.