CV

Xianyang Zhan

Software Engineer at Uber Freight

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ❤️

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Aug 2023 – May 2025

  • Highest Hornor in Computer Science (Top 3%)
  • Currently on the market! Email me if you think I will be a good fit for a role in your team

Master of Science in Computer Science (On leave)

Aug 2024 – May 2026

  • Thesis Advisor: Koustuv Saha

Work and Research Experience

Uber Freight

Software Engineer Intern
2025 Jan ~ Present

  • Carrier side pricing strategy and algorithm design
    • Not disclosed
    • Impact (Increase in annual revenue for Uber): Not disclosed
  • Machine learning model integration, deployment and experiment
    • Not disclosed
    • Impact (Increase in annual revenue for Uber): Not disclosed

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Research Intern
2024 Aug ~ 2024 Dec

  • Code Generation Research
    • Paper submitted to 2025 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML’25)

Tsinghua University

Research Intern
2024 May ~ 2024 Aug

  • Embodied Memory Generation Framework for Psychological Counseling Client Simulation
    • Paper submitted to 2025 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD’25)

Online and Connected AI Reflections Lab at UIUC

Research Assistant
2024 Jan ~ 2024 May

  • Language Models for Content Moderation
    • Paper Accepted to 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Main Conference (NAACL’25 Main) Top 1.5% of the submissions

Publication and Project

Please check https://xzhan0.github.io/publication/

Skills

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Programming

  • Python, Java, Go, C++, C, Html, JavaScript, CSS, Blueprint, Verilog, Assembly, Haskell

Development

  • Git, Unreal Engine 5, Google Cloud, Flask, Numpy, Docker, Amazon Web Service, Nodejs, LLM, sql

Languages

  • English, 中文, 廣東話