Jason Xi Yang

Jason XI YANG has a diverse work experience in machine learning engineering, book authoring, and academic research. Jason XI started their career as a Teaching Assistant for Data Structures at Johns Hopkins University in 2011. Jason XI then worked as a Summer Intern at Harvard University's Department of Psychology in 2012. From 2013 to 2015, they served as a Research Assistant in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences at Brown University.

In 2017, Jason joined Goldman Sachs as a Strategist and Software Engineer. During their time there, they researched and implemented an Active Learning framework, which involved designing a data sampling strategy and exploring techniques to handle data imbalance problems. Jason XI contributed to reducing the workload on subject matter experts and improving model training efficiency.

Jason's next role was at New Degree Press, where they worked as a Book Author from 2020 to 2021. In this capacity, they authored a book on an undisclosed topic.

In 2019, Jason joined WorldQuant Predictive as a Machine Learning Engineer. Here, they researched, designed, and implemented an end-to-end pipeline for emerging trend and event detection from unstructured text. Jason XI'sresponsibilities included ingesting and preprocessing Chinese social media data, building state-of-the-art named entity recognition models, creating data visualization dashboards, and setting up model serving endpoints. Jason XI also evaluated alternative tools and methods for the pipeline.

Most recently, Jason has been working at Quora as a Machine Learning Engineer starting in 2022. Unfortunately, there is no additional information available about their role at this company.

Jason XI YANG has a Master's Degree in Cognitive Science from Brown University and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University. Jason XI also holds a Double Bachelor's degree from Dalian University of Technology. In addition to their formal education, they have obtained various certifications including "Entrepreneurship 1: Developing the Opportunity" from the University of Pennsylvania in August 2020, "Brainbench C++ Test -- 4.9/5.0 -- 98%" from Brainbench in November 2015, and "Japanese-Language Proficiency Test N1 -- 日本語能力試験 一級" from The Japan Foundation and The Japanese Ministry of Education in 2008. Jason XI also has a "Certificate in C++ Programming for Financial Engineering (With Distinction)" from Baruch College.