Kaien Yang

kaieny [at] cs [dot] stanford [dot] edu

I'm a Stanford Math BS and CS MS with a focus on AI, engineering, and statistical modeling.

I've worked in quantitative research at Citadel (Fixed Income & Macro), AI at Google DeepMind (TPU Hardware Design), trading at D. E. Shaw (Macro Equities), autonomy at Skydio, and research at the Stanford IRIS Lab.

Research

Allan Zhou, Kaien Yang, Kaylee Burns, Yiding Jiang, Samuel Sokota, J. Zico Kolter, Chelsea Finn

NeurIPS 2023

Allan Zhou, Kaien Yang, Yiding Jiang, Kaylee Burns, Winnie Xu, Samuel Sokota, J. Zico Kolter, Chelsea Finn

NeurIPS 2023

A $150 robot that digitizes books and generates insights, all with zero human intervention (TreeHacks 2024)

computer vision robotics

An interactive textbook where students can have engaging conversations with historical figures (TreeHacks 2023)

education

Data-driven golf modeling with real-time shot recommendations (collaboration with Stanford Varsity Team)

sports analytics

NYC Hackathon First Place Prize ($10,000)
Best Hardware Hack at Stanford Treehacks ($2,000)
Best Chat App at Stanford Treehacks ($2,000)
Best Paper Awards in Stanford Machine Learning (CS229), and Applied Matrix Theory (MATH104)
Davidson Fellow Scholar ($10,000)
Research Science Institute Scholar
Marconi/Samueli Award for Innovation ($10,000)
U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad Finalist (national top 20)