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Hi, my name is Everest Yang, and I'm from Massachusetts. I am an undergrad student at Brown University pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science (Tracks: AI/ML & Systems).

After graduating, I am planning to pursue a PhD in CS/Robotics. My interests range from Deep Learning to Surgical Robotics, Oncology, Aerospace, and more.

In my internship at AWS, I developed a Generative AI application with several AWS services (Bedrock, S3, Lambda, Athena, etc). At NASA, I worked on wireless networking infrastructure to establish Wi-Fi and cellular communication (3GPP) on the Moon.

In my free time, I enjoy playing tennis, hiking, and trying new foods. Currently, I am also interested in learning more about fusion engineering, plasma physics, and philosophy!

Everest Yang Portrait
Me with the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at the NASA Johnson Space Center

Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at NASA Johnson

My intern partner Kim and I with NASA's humanoid, Valkyrie

My intern partner
and I with NASA's Humanoid, Valkyrie

Me inside a mockup of the International Space Station

Mockup of the ISS inside the JEM module

Experience

Brown University - Intelligent Robot Lab

Robotics Research Engineer Intern

Dec 2024 - Present

Providence, RI

• Conducting RL/NLP/CV research in the Intelligent Robot Lab under Prof. George Konidaris, focusing on Robot Planning and 6D Pose Estimation/Manipulation

• Built an active learning framework that leverages foundation models to autonomously learn symbolic abstractions of robot skills, enabling zero-shot task planning with PDDL-style operators

• Co-Authored RSS Workshop Paper and submitting expanded manuscript to ICLR in October

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Computational Oncology ML Research Intern

Aug 2024 - Present

Manhattan, NY

Presentation at The Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium

• Conducted Computational Oncology research in the Department of Radiation Oncology under Prof. Igor Shurak

• Developed CAST (Causal Analysis for Survival Trajectories), a novel framework that extends causal survival forests to model the time-varying treatment effects across medical interventions

• Analyzed Radiotherapy Effects on HNSCC Prognosis (Oropharyngeal Cancer) through Causal ML, optimizing models through cross-validation, hyperparameter tuning and simulation BED validation

• Second Author Presenter at the Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium on AI and ML Applications in Radiation Therapy, Medical Diagnostics, and Radiation Occupational Health and Safety

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Cloud Machine Learning Engineer Intern

May 2025 - Aug 2025

Seattle, WA

• Developed Generative AI application with automated ingestion, transformation, and querying of operational data using AWS S3, Lambda, Glue, Athena, and OpenSearch

• Built a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture integrating AWS Bedrock to support natural language queries across structured and unstructured enterprise data

• Designed a secure, containerized CI/CD infrastructure using Docker, Amazon ECS Fargate, CodePipeline, and CloudWatch for reliable deployment, monitoring, and access control

NASA Johnson Space Center

Software Engineer & DS Research Intern

Jun 2024 - Aug 2024

Houston, TX

NASA Publication in IEEE WiSEE

My Intern Exit Presentation

• Conducted Antenna Data Science research on Wi-Fi signal propagation for pressurized spacecraft; used ISS signal surveys from Astrobee, NASA's autonomous free-flying robot

• First Author NASA publication in IEEE International Conference; research used for future missions such as the Artemis program, Lunar Gateway, Orbital Reef; publication is first in the field; received $1.5k award from the NASA Rhode Island Space Grant

• Spearheaded Python/Bash/Flux scripts for real-time KPI network monitoring of Lunar Wi-Fi and 3GPP (4G LTE) field testing; fixed issues related to GPS tracking, TCP/UDP/RSSI, GUI systems, and iperf on LattePanda SBCs

• Developed visualization software using InfluxDB, Grafana, and Docker; wrote YAML file to auto-configure JSON dashboards as provisioning text files for version control; wrote design docs & presented to Division Chief - [Received Return Offer to any NASA Space Center]

UC San Diego - NeuroML Lab

Computational Neuroscience DL Research Intern

Jan 2024 - Aug 2024

San Diego, CA

• Conducted Computational Neuroscience research under Professor Meenakshi Khosla: Built PyTorch-based Deep Neural Network framework for auditory recognition tasks to better understand AI explainability

• Processed 100 GB of raw audio stimuli/data to analyze specific trends and developed Deep Learning algorithms directly with PI

• Unfortunately, I had to leave the lab because of transferring to Brown, but I had a great time, learned a lot, and was able to pass off my project to another student!

UMass Boston - Knowledge Discovery Lab

Computational Hydrology ML Research Intern

Aug 2020 - Sept 2022

Boston, MA

Publication in JSR

• Conducted Time Series Machine Learning research under Dr. Yong Zhuang: Created Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models to forecast river streamflow, a key indicator of flooding

• Analyzed Ganges River dataset measured in Q (m3/s) discharge volume. Plotted streamflow Log Volume using ADF tests and KL Divergence and accounted for seasonality. Found ARIMA parameters (p, d, q)

• First Author publication in Journal of Student Research (peer-reviewed and open-access)

Featured Projects

My Blog!

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My Experience as a SWE Intern at NASA

I interned at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Summer 2024, following my freshman year. Here was my experience...

Date Published: Jan 29, 2025
11 min read / 2553 words

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Why I transferred from UCSD to Brown

I transferred from UC San Diego to Brown University after my freshman year of college. Here's why I made the switch...

Date Published: Aug 17, 2024
8 min read / 1844 words

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