Gary Wang

URAP Research Assistant

University of California, Berkeley · Berkeley, CA

• AI nutrition and food systems research and full-stack development.
• Risk assessment algorithms for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) team.
• Supervised by Prof. Isabel Madzorera.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Data Science Discovery Program · Berkeley, CA

• AI for Science Discovery and Knowledge Evaluation/Management.
• Supervised by Prof. Stefano Bertozzi.

Student Researcher

Rapid Reviews\Infectious Diseases · Berkeley, CA

• AI/machine peer-review evaluation team, in collaboration with the MIT Press and the Gates Foundation.
• Supervised by Director Hildy Fong Baker.

Undergraduate Student Researcher

William and Barbara Leonard Transportation Center · San Bernardino, CA

• Social media analysis of SBCTA.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

William and Barbara Leonard Transportation Center · San Bernardino, CA

• Chatbot research assistant, supervised by Prof. Yunfei Hou.
• Developed reward-modeling pipelines and evaluation frameworks for chatbot systems, measuring confidence calibration and faithfulness across LLM-generated outputs, improving response sharpness by 60%.
• Implemented automated experiments and data analysis workflows to assess model truthfulness under varying prompts and conversational contexts.

Full Stack Engineer

Accio · Sunnyvale, CA

• Optimized a persistent-memory AI agent workflow and its contextual memory systems, improving workflow efficiency by 30% and contextual memory performance by over 20% across specialized professional AI modes.
• Redesigned an agent evaluation dashboard and engineered an RLHF-based evaluation system, improving work speed by 15% while streamlining model analysis and the deep learning step process.

ML Researcher

Alibaba Cloud · Hangzhou, China

• Multilingual system optimization, recommendation-oriented NLP analysis on large-scale e-commerce data.

Business Analyst

Alibaba Group · Hangzhou, China

• Built frameworks for evaluation and experimentation efficiency, improving performance in AI-driven e-commerce projects and initiatives by 20% for Alibaba's Cross-Border E-commerce Service Center.
• Analyzed large-scale e-commerce and recommendation data using econometric modeling to evaluate scalable AI marketplace solutions, providing 100+ generative solutions and market decisions.

Undergraduate Researcher

University of California, Riverside · Riverside, CA

• Applied tensor decomposition, CP decomposition, and related machine learning techniques to classify and categorize AI-generated responses from university chatbot interactions.
• Evaluated and improved contextual accuracy by 40% across diverse student inquiry categories, analyzing response quality and identifying performance trends in information retrieval and response specificity.
• Collaborated with and supervised by Prof. Vagelis Papalexakis.

Undergraduate Researcher

California State University-San Bernardino

• Reward modeling.

Startup Associate

Figwork

• Outreach & growth.

Marketing Intern

Efficient Business Integrators · Mission Viejo, CA

• Operation optimization, automation tool efficiency, product visibility, UI/UX.

Instructor

Mathnasium - The Math Learning Center

• Mathematics instructor and 1-1 instructor: K-12, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, AP Physics.

Founder

LanguageConnect

• AI survey-response analysis, AI news page and blog.

Publisher

ForeignLanguagePro

• Language-acquisition iOS app built with the OpenAI API, Flutter, AssemblyAI, Firebase, and Android Studio.

ML Researcher

Kaggle

• Salary prediction model on 70k entries with 6 unique prediction algorithms.

Data Analyst

MP Biomedicals · Santa Ana, CA

• Full-stack development and customer support: 20+ features for a customer support portal supporting nucleic acid homogenizer systems.
• Collaborated with engineers and stakeholders to test, debug, and deploy application features, improving system usability and customer support workflows.

Software Intern

California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

• AI innovation research and cloud computing app development.
• Supervised by Prof. Yu Sun.

Research Writer

IEEE Conference

• NLP analysis on language acquisition applications (ADNLP '24).
• Reward model and tensor decomposition (IEEE '26).

Software Engineer

MP Biomedicals

• NGS kit analysis, beta data testing on a bacterial pathogen prep kit, and FastPrep research with MP lab teams.

Volunteer

Center for Compassionate Leadership

• 3 book drives, $3k raised for ARC & ACS.
• Veteran rehab and K2K reading management.

Astrophysics Researcher

George Mason University

• Telescope data analysis at the George Mason University Observatory; NASA mission details proposals.

Independent AI Web-app & App Development

Full-Stack Engineer

• Designed and deployed 40+ full-stack products for practical, quality-of-life usage, including AI assistants, study tools, travel platforms, real-time marketplaces, and productivity systems.
• Engineered custom, production-ready web-apps and apps from idea to live deployment, transforming 30+ unique user requirements into scalable features, integrations, and polished end-to-end experiences.

Language Learning App & Research Paper

Full-Stack Developer & Research Author

• Developed an interactive, video-based language-learning application for three languages and authored a ten-page research paper evaluating its design, methodology, and simulated language-learning results.
• Selected as 1 of 3 student speakers and 1 of 9 student authors at the ADNLP 2024 International Conference; the paper was later selected and published in a special issue across 10+ NLP journals.

This platform

goat-ai-platform · gariyuuu.com

• Self-hosted, OpenAI-compatible AI gateway (auth, rate limiting, usage tracking, LoRA fine-tuning pipeline) fronting an open-weight model, replacing direct calls to proprietary LLM APIs across a dozen personal apps.

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor's degree, Statistics · College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

• Relevant coursework: Concepts of Probability (STAT 134), Concepts in Computing with Data (STAT 133), Linear Algebra & Differential Equations, Multivariable Calculus, Econometrics, Microeconomics (Quantitative), Macroeconomics (Quantitative)

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor's degree, Data Science · College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor's degree, Economics · College of Letters & Science

St. Margaret’s Episcopal School

High School Diploma