CV

About me

Name Yongan(Michael) Yu
Email yongan.yu@mcgill.ca
Phone (438) 821-1823
Url https://michaelyya.github.io/

Education

  • 2022.08 - 2026.04

    Montreal, Quebec

    Undergraduate student
    McGill University
    Computer Science
    • Nautical Language Processing
    • Machine Learning
    • Algorithms and Data Structures
    • Principles of Geospatial Web

Experiences

  • 2024.3 - present
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Data Rescue Archives & weather, McGill
    Supervisor: Prof. Renee Sieber
    • Implemented GenAI weather vulnerability analysis tool
    • identified 'Weather Vulnerabilities to Past and Present Disruptive Weather'
    • Researched on the continuing challenge of using newspapers as digital data
  • 2024.1 - 2024.5
    Undergraduate Researcher
    Harvard Business School, Harvard
    Supervisor: Prof. Jacqueline Lane
    • Architected an advanced GenAI framework to evaluate over 2000 startup products
    • Incorporated advanced Tree-of-thought reasoning for nuanced statistical data analysis
    • Leveraged K-means clustering to enhance semantic similarity-based retrieval, and achieved 79% accuracy from validation data
  • 2023.4 - 2023.6
    Teaching Assistant
    Jinan University
    Professor: Tess St.John
    • 2023 summer courses 'Numerical Calculus I
    • Held office hour, organized discussion sessions and corrected homework assignment
  • 2023.1 - present
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Rosalind & Morris Goodman Cancer Institute, McGill
    Supervisor: Prof. Luke McCaffrey
    • Generated multiple advanced bidomain simulations with Chaste through C++, Python and XML
    • Constructed 3D tissue-model source codes with ParaView and Compucell3D
    • Solved ODEs and PDEs for computing the deformation of a nonlinearly elastic body

Volunteers

  • 2024.5 - present

    Toronto, Ontario

    Website Developer
    Ask An Undergrad
    Helping high school students explore undergraduate programs across Canada.
    • Was a mentor for high school students through coffee chat and being a panelist for student panel events
    • Was a website developer and helping mentor team regularly update website
  • 2022.8 - present

    Montreal, QC

    Event Coordinator
    Hack McGill
    McHacks is one of the biggest collegiate hackathons having over 700 attendees.
    • Collaborated in cross-functional teams to organize a 700 attendee collegiate hackathon
    • Mentored ten hackers one-on-one on the basics of object-oriented design and web frameworks

Skills

Programming Languages
Python
Java
C/C++
CSS/HTML/Javascript
Bash
XML
Frameworks
TensorFlow/Pytorch
ReacrJS/NodeJS
MongoDB
Django
SQL
AWS
FastAPI