# Emily Yi

> SDE at AWS

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/emilyyi

## Work Experience
### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Research Assistant @ Buckler Lab
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Ithaca, New York, United States
Trained, tuned, and tested gradient tree boosting models in R with XGBoost to predict pleiotropy in maize
Computed similarity between predicted and ATAC-seq accessibility
Developed Android app for use in fieldwork

### Teaching Assistant for Computational Genetics and Genomics @ Cornell University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Ithaca, New York, United States
Develop materials for and teach triweekly section to 60 students, reviewing algorithms and models relevant to computational biology
Hold weekly office hours, helping students understand statistical theory and algorithms
Grade biweekly homework assignments with theory and programming exercises

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
Created ticket digester to process and visualize customer ticket data, identifying opportunities for improvement in handling ~100 tickets weekly
Integrated AWS DynamoDB, Lambda, CloudWatch, S3, Athena, and QuickSight, taking end-to-end ownership
Analyzed ticket text in Python with NLTK to continually discover new trends in ticket content

### Summer Intern @ LabRule
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Remote
Collected viewer engagement data from TikTok with Tiktok Scraper for use in ecommerce marketing
Led team in predicting engagement metrics from hashtags with multiple regression model in Python with scikit-learn

### Tutor @ Varsity Tutors
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Online
Tutored students ranging in age from middle school to adult learners in statistics, French, pre-calculus, and chemistry


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science, Computational Biology, Statistics
Cornell University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023

### High School Diploma
Bridgewater-Raritan High School
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22