Georgia Institute of Technology · Atlanta
Bob Yan
Evaluations for intelligence beyond human language, and the measurements that keep a safety claim honest.
Mathematics and Computing at Georgia Tech, concentration in Intelligence. Research assistant in the College of Computing. The aim is evaluation for superintelligence that is not confined to human language, checked through mechanistic interpretability and through evaluations built from complicated tasks and scenarios.
- Major Mathematics and Computing
- Concentration Intelligence
- Current interest Safety evaluation
Experience
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Fall 2026 Current semester Now
Community-term pipeline
Agentic extraction of community terms, and a benchmark built around accuracy, recall, and precision@k.
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Summer 2026 PURA
Neologisms, from the literature to a dataset
President’s Undergraduate Research Award in the School of Interactive Computing. CITI research training, a literature review and scoping pass, a taxonomy of neologisms, and dataset design. Mentored by Professor Wei Xu, with guidance from Jonathan Zheng and the research group.
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Aug 2025 – Feb 2026 Annotation
Data pipeline for framing and translation
Collection and annotation for media framing, and for machine-translation quality under MQM.
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Aug 2025 – present Part-time · Atlanta
Research assistant, College of Computing
Data collection, cleaning, and preprocessing for evaluating large language models. The appointment is on-site and runs alongside the projects above.
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Aug 2025 – Dec 2025 VIP · hybrid
Premodern English, as a pipeline
Undergraduate research in the Georgia Tech VIP program. Computational pipelines for digitized premodern English: tokenization, preprocessing, sentiment, and topic modeling with LDA and BERTopic.
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Aug 2024 – May 2025 The Webb School
Class president
Senior-class meetings, school events, and the class’s voice in school-wide decisions. Tennessee.