Qianqi "Jackie" Yan

Qianqi "Jackie" Yan

1st year Ph.D. student @ University of California, Santa Cruz

University of California, Santa Cruz

Biography

Hi ! This is Qianqi Yan (严乾琪), a 1st year Ph.D. student @ University of California, Santa Cruz. I work with Professor Xin Eric Wang as a member of the Embodied and Responsible Interaction and Communication (ERIC) Lab. My current research focuses on visual-language model understanding, AI for healthcare and embodied AI.

I obtained my dual-bachelor degrees from the University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2023. I worked with Professors Joyce Chai and Stella Yu.

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Interests
  • vision-language models
  • AI for healthcare
  • Embodied AI
Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2028 (expected)

    University of California, Santa Cruz

  • B.S.E. in Computer Science, 2023

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  • B.S.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2023

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Machine Learning Software Engineer Intern
Apr 2022 – Aug 2022

Responsibilities include:

  • Incorporate TextRank algorithm and fine-tune BART model on abstract summarization task. Improve ROUGE scores on DialogSum dataset from 0.44 by 7%.
  • Deploy pipeline on TorchServe front-end to transcribe sales meeting from audio to summarized text.

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