# Terry Yang

> AI/ML Engineering @ StubHub | Search and Discovery | Agentic Commerce

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

I work on AI-powered search at StubHub. Previously, I built LLM applications for SEO at TikTok. I won the Alexa Prize for my conversational AI system. My experience includes computer vision research, specifically training neural networks for amodal instance segmentation. I combine research knowledge with practical skills to solve AI challenges effectively.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ StubHub
Jan 2025 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
Search and Discovery

### Software Engineer @ TikTok
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Greater Seattle Area
SEO team.
Photo Mode team.

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Greater Seattle Area
Alexa International team.

### AI Chatbot Engineer (Alexa Prize Winner) @ University of California, Davis
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Davis
- Won 1st place ($500,000 prize) in Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 2 under Professor Zhou Yu.
- Led team in developing state machines for multi-turn conversations with Alexa users.
- Developed movie and book chat modules that became the most popular and highly rated, generating over 10,000 responses daily and accounting for 40% of our bot's overall traffic.

### Computer Vision Researcher @ University of California, Davis
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Davis
- Conducted research on improving benchmarks for amodal instance segmentation under Professor Yong Jae Lee.
- Proposed an approach that combines generative adversarial networks with transfer learning on synthetic images.
- Modified and trained neural network architectures including Deepmask, SharpMask, and Mask R-CNN.

### Physics Tutor @ University of California, Davis
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Davis

### Software Engineering Intern @ Moody's
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
University of California, Davis


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/terryyang97
- Website: https://yimang.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-04-05