# Yian Yao

> TLM in AI Team and Prediction Team

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yian

An energetic and self-motivated individual. 
Research-minded engineer obsessed with diffusion & flow matching, 4D Gaussian Splatting, VLA/LLM, reinforcement learning and many more.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer; TLM in AI Team and Prediction Team @ Pony.ai
Jan 2021 – Present | Fremont, California, United States
Current Projects:
4D Scene Reconstruction; Single-Step Flow Matching; Motion Prediction and Simulation

### Ph.D. in Mathematics @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | United States
Advisor: Prof. Rafael de la Llave, Georgia Institute of Technology
* Developed an iterative algorithm for computing the invariant manifolds and the corresponding isochrons for 2-dim dynamical systems using the parameterization method.
* Proved the theory of convergence in an a-posteriori format using Nash- Moser smoothing technique. Implemented the algorithm for the dissipative standard map and explored scenarios near the breakdown.
* The algorithm is irrespective of the dynamics on the invariant circle (rotation or phase-locked). It has an almost quadratic convergence rate and can work even near the breakdown.

Instructor for Introduction to Probability and Statistics and Differential Equations.
Teaching/Lecture Assistant for Probability and Statistics with Applications, Differential Equations, Differential Calculus, Multivariable Calculus, and Multivariable Calculus.

### Master in Computational Science and Engineering @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States

### Globalink Summer Research Intern @ University of Alberta
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Edmonton, Canada Area
* Built a predator-prey interaction model with refuge and allee effect. Proved the existence and the uniform boundedness of the solution, and analyzed the stability of the equilibria.
* Studied the global dynamics of the model and the existence of center manifold and Hopf Bifurcation, explored the biomass ratio.


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Mathematics
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Master's degree in Computational Science and Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yian-yao-322870161

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Last updated: 2026-04-11