Student Researcher, Bhattacharjee Group, Yale. Spring 2021-Present
• Continuation of senior thesis work. Developed, tested, and analyzed a quantum random walk model for the two alternative forced choice decision problem. Manuscript submitted for review.
Graphics Compiler Team Intern @ Qualcomm. Summer 2021
• Developed AMBER based unit testing frame work for grapics and compute shaders.
• Identified and implemented extensions to AMBER pacakge based on team's needs.
Researcher at the Gerstein bioinformatics lab. 2018-2021
• Developing a browser-based tool for prioritizing RBP variants.
• Recipient of Yale College Dean’s Research Fellowship & Davenport College Richter Summer Fellowship summer 2020.
Student Researcher at UCLA Bruins in Genomics Program. Summer 2020
• Student researcher at the Jason Ernst Lab in the UCLA Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences. Extended Sharpr-MRPA model for mapping activating and repressive regulatory regions with machine learning.
Research Intern at Language, Information, and Learning at Yale Laboratory with Dr. Dragomir Radev summer 2019
• Proposed an extractive-abstractive hybrid model for neural network based multi-document summarization utilizing PyTorch and designed experiments to test its capabilities.
• Tested baselines for state-of-the-art extractive models on the Multinews dataset.
Research Intern at Holley-Bockelmann group,Vanderbilt University Department of Physics & Astronomy
• Modeled and evaluated the physical consequences of the Primordial Black Hole as Dark Matter hypothesis utilizing computational resources of the Vanderbilt University Department of Physics and Astronomy
Mudi Yang, Lorenzo Flores, Himnish Hunma, Bernardo Trevisan. Exploring the impact of sentiment analysis on current methods of fake news detection. Yale Undergraduate Research Journal Vol 3.1 Spring 2022
• Developed BERT based sentiment analysis DNN to extend fake news detection algorithms.
Mudi Yang, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Ferah Munshi. Radiation Emissions of Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter in a Dwarf Galaxy. Young Scientist. Vol 8. 52-54. 2018
• Developed BERT based sentiment analysis DNN to extend fake news detection algorithms.
Raghavendra Pradyumna Pothukuchi, Mudi Yang, et al. The QUATRO Application Suite: Quantum Computing for Models of Human Cognition.
• Developed quantum random walk on D-Wave quantum annealing system to model the two alternative forced choice decision problem. Submitted for review. arXiv
Mudi Yang, A D-Wave Annealing Based Quantum Random Walk Model of Cognition.
• Undergraduate Thesis. This work is included in a larger manuscript currently under review.
Co-President of Yale Undergraduate Aerospace Association 2018-2019
• Leader of largest on campus engineering club as one of two co-presidents.
• Former Project Leader from 2019-2020, developed GPS guided parafoil system for retrieval of payloads from high altitude balloons. Recipient of an 2019 NASA Connecticut Space Grant for Student Projects.
Davenport Liaison for Davenport Pops Orchestra 2018-2021
• Coordinate grants, performance spaces, and relations between Davenport Pops Orchestra and Davenport College (a constituent college of Yale University).
TEDxNashville Speaker 2018
• Presented on potential uses supercomputers and on original research conducted with the Holley-Bockelmann research group at Vanderbilt University. Link to Talk
YHACK 2020 Covid Resource App
• Developed android COVID resource app with contact tracing, social distancing mapping, and VR social distancing “ruler” Top 5 project finalist. Won 3 awards: Best COVID-19 Related Hack (Citadel), Best Use of Google Cloud (Google), Best Use of Google Cloud - COVID-19 Hackathon Fund (Google).
• Awarded $1500 Google COVID-19 Hackathon funding.
HackMIT 2021 Streetstagram
• Developed Django based website for users post and discover street art in New Haven with Google Maps integration.