# Christine Y. > Technical Staff, Language Engineer @ Microsoft AI Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/christiney CS and Complit double major @ Yale ## Work Experience ### Member of Technical Staff @ Microsoft AI Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States Post-training in-house foundation models ### Language Engineer @ Microsoft AI Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, CA First Language Engineer hire at Microsoft AI. AI Evaluations + Platform, Personality, Response Quality, Safety ### AI/ML Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States AI Incubation, Language Models, working in MAIDAP & CTO's office ### Animation Tech Intern @ Pixar Animation Studios Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Emeryville, California, United States Helping animators animate 🎨✨🎉 ### Software Engineer Intern (Oculus) @ Meta Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Burlingame, California, United States Developed and shipped a new first party app "Meta Quest Guide" to ~10 million Quest users in a small team of two engineers. Guide is a 0-1 product which provides continued education and support for users in VR. ### Research Assistant, Interactive Machines Group @ Yale University Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New Haven, Connecticut, United States - Programmed joint motions and facial displays of a photographer robot using Python and a ROS framework. - Wrote code to process sensor data for a study on robots & group interactions -- handling speech localization, gaze aversion, & participant filtering. ### Teaching Assistant @ Yale University Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New Haven, Connecticut, United States CPSC 223, Data Structures and Programming Techniques (Fall 2021, ULA) CPSC 112, Intro CS (Spring 2021, Section Co-lead + Grader) ### RISE (Research Internships in Science and Engineering) Scholar @ DAAD German Academic Exchange Service Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 ### Expressive Systems Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Animator, visdev artist, and R&D assistant on a narrative VR experience for festival presentation, collaborating with Prof. Johannes DeYoung. Sculpted 25+ frame-by-frame, quadruped animation sequences in VR. Drew massive pose sheet, animated pencil tests, and designed original character models. Constructed track matte templates in Adobe After Effects to optimize VFX. Worked in QuillVR, Unity, Maya. ### Founder, Executive Producer, Host – Attune @ Yale Daily News Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New Haven, Connecticut, United States - Pitched and led production for Attune, the YDN’s premiere audio narrative anthology, publishing student-produced short stories, plays, and poetry, with original soundtracks and voice talent by both students and alumni. - Managed a global team of 45+ writers, voice actors, producers, illustrators, and composers. Published two seasons (2.5+ hours total) on Spotify, Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts. - Recruited founding team and onboarded/trained 10 producers in sound engineering roles and editorial decision making for audio. Directed synchronous rehearsals and recording sessions. Made final edits for sound quality and content. - Set up collaborations between students and experienced alumni in the entertainment industry, inc. Michaela Jill Murphy (known for Avatar: The Last Airbender). ### Contributing Producer, Sound Engineer @ Yale Daily News Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 ## Education ### B.S. Computer Science in Comparative Literature (Double Major) Yale University ### Advanced Chinese Language and Culture Harvard University ### Advanced German Goethe Institut Freiburg ### International Baccalaureate Diploma South Forsyth High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/christineyang22 --- Source: https://flows.cv/christiney JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/christiney/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11