Yang Gao
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft | PhD
- Role
- Software Engineer at Microsoft
- Location
- San Jose, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Yang Gao
Ph.D. in computational modeling with professional experience as a software engineer specializing in scientific computing software and backend services for AI and LLM infrastructure• Strong research and work background in numerical analysis and high performance scientific computing, specialized in numerical linear algebra, iterative methods, ordinary and partial differential equations, sparse matrix techniques, model order reduction• Professional experience of commercial scientific computing software: computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and electronic design automation (EDA) software development, GenAI infra: Microsoft Copilot Studio backend• Extensive experience of code debugging, profiling, testing, and numerical algorithm optimization• Udacity C++ NanoDegree Program graduate• Programming languages: C++, C, FORTRAN, Python, MATLAB, R• Authored and co-authored more than 20 publications in top journals and conferences
Experience
Software Engineer
Jul 2022 — Present · Mountain View, CA, US
Building scalable experimentation and evaluation infrastructure for Microsoft Copilot Studio AI featuresLear more about Copilot Studio: Designed and launched an Evaluation-as-a-Service platform to enable automated, scalable assessments- Implemented LLM-as-a-Judge solutions for rapid, hands-free AI feature evaluation
Education
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Bachelor's Degree, Major:Energy, Power System and Automation
2009 — 2013
University of Connecticut
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering
2013 — 2017
University of Connecticut
Honor Exchange Program, Mechanical Engineering
2012 — 2013
Skills
- Heat Transfer
- Chemkin
- Fluid Mechanics
- Matlab
- Combustion
- Modeling
- Ansys
- Fortran
- Simulations
- Cfd
- Thermodynamics
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