Marco Yang

CS at Caltech, interested in Machine Learning and Software Engineering.

Experience

Member of Technical Staff Intern, Parallel Web Systems

Software Engineering Intern, Two Sigma

Software Engineering Intern, Glean

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Caltech Vision Lab

Full Stack Software Developer Intern, Fathomd

Projects

CUDA Qwen3.5 Inference

github

CUDA autoregressive inference engine for Qwen3.5 with flash attention and Gated DeltaNet linear-attention layers. CS 179 final project.

Catan RL Bot

github

Reinforcement learning bot for Settlers of Catan trained with DAgger and PPO. ~70% win rate vs Catanatron baseline bots.

Caltech Course LLM Agent

github · demo archived

LLM with retrieval-augmented generation (scraped course catalog and 2 years of student feedback) that answers Caltech course questions.

Caltech Course Graph

github · demo

Interactive graph visualization and prerequisite finder for Caltech courses.

Tennis Ranker

github · demo archived

Web app that tracks tennis match scores and automatically ranks players. Made for my high school tennis team tryouts.

Coursework

Awards

William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition

Score of 19 (top 1000) in the largest North American intercollegiate math competition.

United States of America Computing Olympiad

Gold Division in high school programming competition (theoretical CS, data structures, and algorithms).

American Math Competition/American Invitational Math Exam

Qualified for AIME 3 times by placing top 2.5% in American Math Competition (high school math competition), highest score of 6 on AIME.