Who I am
I'm Jack Yang. I'm a senior at UC Berkeley studying Computer Science, Mathematics, and German, and student researcher at the UCSF NeuroAI Lab.
What I work on
I research large language models (LLMs) for dementia diagnosis.
That is to say, I train LLMs to ingest patient interviews, audio recordings, and biomarker data and output reports that not only diagnose dementia accurately but include decision rules and chains of reasoning as to how the model arrived at its conclusion.
Many predictive models are a "black box", which means they make a decision which may be accurate but don't offer any rationale. My goal is to make these models more transparent and interpretable.
How I got here
Previously, I developed backend infrastructure and internal tools for AWS' Anthropic partnership. I also worked on software at LiveX.ai and covered emerging InfraAI companies at Ocean Arete Fund.