# Anna Yang

> Software Engineer II @ Amazon | HCI & NLP @ Stanford

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/annayang

Thinking and Creating.

Software Engineer at Amazon Smart Vehicles. Previously: xCures, NextCapital, Promethium.
Research at Stanford HCI.
Symbolic Systems graduate (MS, BS) from Stanford University.
Currently into video games. Always into music and language.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ Amazon
Jan 2023 – Present
* Amazon Smart Vehicles

### Software Engineer I @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
* Amazon Smart Vehicles
* Built and developed features for an in-vehicle infotainment system integrated with Alexa using React Native, TypeScript libraries, and C++

### User Researcher @ Stanford University School of Engineering
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024
Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group

• Designed and iterated over all parts of the user study, including the overall study design, creation of study consent forms, survey questions, and participant recruitment. 
• Developed website for initial recruitment of participants and leading content strategy for social media. Received over 400 responses on survey in less than one month. 
• Paper accepted to IMWUT 2020

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
• TA for CS 224N (Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning - Chris Manning). Winter 2021. Lead developer for Dependency Parsing assignment. 
• https://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs224n/cs224n.1214/
• TA for CS 224U (Natural Language Understanding - Chris Potts). Spring 2021 
• https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/2021/

### Software Developer @ LingoHealth
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### NLP Researcher @ xCures
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Designed and created 2+ patient-facing chatbots (Python, Flask, Twilio). Conducted research into bot pragmatics, bot dynamics, and more specifically, conversational repair to improve user experience with chatbots.

### Software Engineer Intern @ NextCapital
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Created a full-stack feature to streamline beneficiary information updates, saving developers on the team over 3 hrs./week of manual updating. Initiated continuation of past-hackathon project to develop a web application to automate deployments.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Promethium
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
Worked closely with backend team, CEO, and lead engineer to create a custom Alexa skill for the company using AWS Lambda, Amazon SES, NLP techniques and Python.  Conducted research into web embeddings to implement an end-to-end question similarity algorithm using a Universal Sentence Encoder model built on Flask and AWS DynamoDB.

### Marketing Intern Team Leader @ SNACKFEVER INC
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Managed a team of 4 other interns to ensure timely completion of their idea submissions and posts for the blog.

### Social Media Marketing Intern @ SNACKFEVER INC
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
Wrote and edited blog posts promoting the products to improve engagement and attract potential customers on the WordPress website, Facebook, and Twitter.

### Terman Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Stanford University
Worked with a graduate student mentor to investigate the influence of fungal competition on carbon and nitrogen trading in ectomycorrhial mutualism through the use of stable isotope labeling, dissection, and spectrometry.  Utilized R to analyze enrichment data of different plant tissues through averaging and graphing.  Presented project results at Stanford ASURPS Fall 2019.

### MUIR Program Research Intern @ Stanford University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Stanford University

### Research Intern @ Boston University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Boston University Department of Biology
Researched the impacts of global change, including temperature increase as well as increase in nitrogen deposition levels, on wood-rot fungi and their interactions with one another.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Symbolic Systems
Stanford University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Symbolic Systems (Artificial Intelligence), Music Minor
Stanford University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### Doshisha University
Jan 2019

### Cupertino High School
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/annacyang

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Last updated: 2026-03-22