05 — resume

Resume

Hippocampus

coronal060 / 124, coronal slice 60 of 124 with the Hippocampus highlighted

Medial temporal lobe, both hemispheres. Critical for forming new episodic memories: binding what happened to where and when it happened.

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The full CV (PDF) has more detail. The short version:

Work

  • Software Engineer, PayPal· Jul 2026–present. Cloud Center of Excellence, Efficiency team. Escalation and ticket drafting for the public-cloud help channel's bot; an LLM tool that prioritizes the cloud-request queue; on call for access, resources and IAM.
  • Technical Co-founder & Sole Architect, 6Keywords · Nov 2025–present. Law-firm intelligence from public web data. See Projects.
  • Software Engineering Intern, PayPal · Jun–Aug 2025. Public Cloud Infrastructure. A Terraform provider in Go for IAM workflows; a natural-language-to-BigQuery assistant built on Claude.
  • Software Engineering Intern, PayPal · Jun–Aug 2024. Public Cloud Infrastructure. VPC Service Controls policy resolution for a self-service security portal.

Research

  • Research Assistant, Huang Lab, University of Michigan · Oct 2025–present. Center for Consciousness Science, Department of Anesthesiology. PI Zirui Huang; supervisor Hyunwoo Jang. fMRI decoding across propofol-induced unresponsiveness; SonoMap.
  • Research Assistant, Pal–Lee collaboration, University of Michigan · Oct 2025–present. Computational EEG analysis, Department of Anesthesiology. PIs Dinesh Pal and UnCheol Lee; mentor Emma Huels.
  • Undergraduate Student Researcher, Sankar Lab, Arizona State University · Oct 2023–Jul 2024. Machine learning. PI Lalitha Sankar; mentor John Kevin Cava. AugLoss.
  • Software-review research collaboration · Mar–Nov 2022. Data collection and dataset construction.

Papers and posters

  • Zhang, H., Yang, A., Peng, A., Pieptea, L. F., Yang, J., & Ding, J. (2022). A quantitative study of software reviews using content analysis methods. IEEE Access, 10, 124663–124672. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3224048
  • Otstot, K., Yang, A., Cava, J. K., & Sankar, L. (2024). AugLoss: A Robust Augmentation-based Fine Tuning Methodology. Preprint, arXiv:2206.02286v2 (revised Jan 29, 2024).
  • Systematic review of low-intensity focused ultrasound neuromodulation in humans (Jang et al.; third author). Under review.
  • fMRI decoding across propofol-induced unresponsiveness (first author, with Jang, Mashour, Hudetz and Huang). In preparation.
  • Yang, A. Parameter-free Decoding of Mental Task from Functional MRI During Propofol Anesthesia. Poster, 2026 Anesthesiology Research Retreat, University of Michigan, Apr 25, 2026.

Education and teaching

  • University of Michigan · Apr 2026. B.S. with Distinction, Cognitive Science (Computation and Cognition track) and Computer Science.
  • Arizona State University. Studied there before transferring to Michigan.
  • Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, CSE 205 (Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures), Arizona State University · Jan–May 2024. Also helped design an RFID attendance system used in CSE 110 and CSE 205.