CV

Xianyang Zhan

Software Engineer II 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 II (2025 Jun ~ )

  • Freight carrier side pricing strategy and algorithm design

  • Machine learning model integration, deployment and experiment

Uber Freight

Software Engineer Intern (2025 Jan ~ 2025 May)

  • Freight carrier side pricing strategy and algorithm design

  • Machine learning model integration, deployment and experiment

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Research Intern (2024 Aug ~ 2024 Dec)

  • Research on Code Generation and AI Agent

Tsinghua University

Research Intern (2024 May ~ 2024 Aug)

  • Research on Embodied Memory Generation Framework for Psychological Counseling Client Simulation

Online and Connected AI Reflections Lab at UIUC

Research Assistant

2024 Jan ~ 2024 May

  • Language Models for Content Moderation, great research

Publication

[1] SLM-Mod: Small Language Models Surpass LLMs at Content Moderation [PDF]
Xianyang Zhan*, Agam Goyal*, Yilun Chen, Eshwar Chandrasekharan, Koustuv Saha.
Accepted to NAACL 2025 Main Conference (Top 1.5% of the submission, Oral Presentation)

[2] MoMoE: Mixture of Moderation Experts Framework for AI-Assisted Online Governance [PDF]
Agam Goyal, Xianyang Zhan, Yilun Chen, Koustuv Saha, Eshwar Chandrasekharan
Under Review

[3] MAGIC: Multi-Armed Bandit Guided Iterative Code Generation
Yaowenqi Liu, Xianyang Zhan, Yanli Wang, Kaidi Xu, Haohan Wang.
Under Review

[4] Large Language Model-based Data Science Agent: A Survey
Peiran Wang, Yaoning Yu, Ke Chen, Xianyang Zhan, Haohan Wang.
Under Review

[5] Simulation Framework for Embodied Conversational Agents in Psychological Counseling [PDF]
Lixiu Wu*, Yuanrong Tang*, Qisen Pan, Xianyang Zhan, Yuchen Han, Lanxi Xiao, Tianhong Wang, Chen Zhong, Jiangtao Gong.
Under Review

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