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Contact Information

Name YANG OUYANG
Professional Title Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student
Email youyang7@ncsu.edu
Location , Garner, North Carolina 27529

Professional Summary

Ph.D. student at North Carolina State University focusing on Trustworthy & Efficient ML and Interpretable LLMs (Chain-of-Thought).

Experience

  • 2023 - 2023

    Shanghai, China

    Back End Developer Intern, Flight Ticket Department
    Trip.com Group Ltd
    Java, Spring Framework. Optimized MegaSearch aggregation and cache layer for international ticket responses.
    • Reduced the Protobuf response size by 50% in total using a variety of methods
    • Compared serialization means using JMH, including Fury, Kryo, and Protobuf
  • 2022 - 2022

    Mountain View, U.S.A (remote)

    Back End Developer Intern, Deep JavaLibrary Department
    Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Java, K8s. Integrated Deep JavaLibrary Model Server with KServe.
    • Developed 3 robust HTTP APIs in Java for KServe’s inference engine
    • Deployed containerized DJL-Serving on KServe using yaml files

Education

  • 2024 -

    Raleigh, U.S.A

    Doctor of Philosophy
    North Carolina State University
    Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • Advisor: Jung-Eun Kim
    • Research Interests: Trustworthy & Efficient ML; Interpretable LLMs (Chain-of-Thought)
    • Teaching Assistant of ECE 542 Neural Network, Spring 2025
    • Teaching Assistant of ECE 411 Intro to Machine Learning, Fall 2025
    • Teaching Assistant of ECE 209 Computer Systems Programming, Spring 2026
  • 2022 - 2024

    Durham, U.S.A

    Master of Engineering
    Duke University
    Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • Teaching Assistant of ECE 551K: Programming, Data Structures, and Algorithms in C++
  • 2018 - 2022

    Shenzhen, China

    Bachelor of Engineering
    Shenzhen University
    Computer Science and Technology

Awards

  • 2022
    Scholarship Award (162K RMB)
    Duke Kunshan University
  • 2022
    Outstanding Graduate of the Year
    Shenzhen University
  • 2021
    The Second Award of Studying Star
    Shenzhen University
  • 2020
    The Second Award of Studying Star
    Shenzhen University

Publications

  • 2025
    Layer-AdvPatcher: Layer-Level Self-Exposure and Patch for Jailbreak Defense
    In Proceedings of NAACL 2025
  • 2025
    Min-K%++: Improved Baseline for Detecting Pre-Training Data of LLMs
    In Proceedings of ICLR 2025

Skills

Programming Languages: Python, Java, C++, JavaScript
Deep Learning Frameworks: PyTorch, Huggingface