👋 Hi, my name is Alan and I am a software engineer at Plaid applying machine learning on our expansive data network to drive customer-impacting insights. Feel free to contact me here or at: 📥 111alanyu@gmail.com

Experience

PlaidSoftware Engineer

2025 — Now

New York, New York, United States

Projects:

Fraud

Retention (Churn) Score

UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied ScienceUndergraduate Researcher

2021 — 2025

Los Angeles, California, United States

Lab: Ozcan Research Group

Supported Projects: Incoherent Light based Neural Network, AI based Histopathology, Label-Free Pollen Detection using Holography and Deep Learning, Diabetes Detection

Awards: 2 NSF REU Grants ($6,000 summer research program), Best Poster in HHMI Day, University of Arizona Winter Optics School

PlaidSoftware Engineering Intern

2024 — 2024

New York, New York, United States

Network Enablement