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Chen Yang

Experience

Internships, research, and technical roles I've held.

Sept 2025 – Present

AbbVie

Software Engineering Intern · Remote

  • Built a containerized analytics web app (R Shiny, Docker, Plotly) used by oncology researchers to explore RNA-seq differential-expression results and run ORA/GSEA pathway enrichment against MSigDB across 5 datasets and 10k+ gene sets.
  • Designed a JSON manifest contract and runtime data-source discovery layer to decouple upstream batch outputs from the app, letting new datasets be onboarded without code changes.
  • Improved reliability with reactive dependency isolation, stale-state race-condition guards, and 2 automated headless test harnesses covering cold-start and initialized states.
  • R
  • Shiny
  • Docker
  • Plotly
  • Bioinformatics

Aug 2026

Jane Street

INSIGHT – Trading & Research Track · New York, NY

  • Attended Jane Street's INSIGHT, a highly competitive program exploring quantitative trading and research at one of the world's leading proprietary trading firms.
  • Explored the application of probability, statistical modeling, and machine learning to research and markets.
  • Quantitative Research
  • Machine Learning
  • Probability
  • Statistics

Jan 2026 – May 2026

Rolls-Royce

Machine Learning Engineering Intern · Remote

  • Built a PyTorch generative model for synthetic multivariate time-series/sensor data, using a transformer-based masked diffusion architecture and distribution-derived column embeddings to support unconditional, conditional, and partial-row generation.
  • Engineered a schema-agnostic ML pipeline with automated feature selection and self-describing checkpoints, scaling the same codebase from 26 to 500+ columns without code changes.
  • Implemented LoRA fine-tuning and automated model evaluation using MMD, domain-classifier accuracy, correlation distance, and KS statistics, validated by 21 tests covering schema invariance, masking, and inpainting.
  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • Diffusion Models
  • LoRA
  • Time Series

Aug 2024 – May 2025

Purdue Robomaster (Boilerbots)

Algorithms Lead · West Lafayette, IN

Algorithms team member from Aug 2024, Algorithms Lead from Jan 2025.

  • Led omnidirectional chassis control in ROS: forward/inverse kinematics and PID tuning through Gazebo sim-to-real for holonomic motion.
  • Built CV-based autonomous aiming with real-time target tracking under competition arena conditions.
  • ROS
  • Gazebo
  • OpenCV
  • C++
  • Control Systems