Yubo

Yubo

First Year Computer Science student at Caltech, exploring ML, Generative AI, and Research.

Education

Experience

Cyber Program Management Intern

Lockheed Martin, Rotary and Mission Systems Information Security Office / May—Aug 2025

  • Engineered "Security Advisor," a GenerativeAI assistant that won 1st Place in enterprise-wide Intern AI challenge. Projected to save ~28,000 engineering hours (approximately $2M+/yr) annually by consolidating security protocols into a unified, accessible portal.
  • Built emailing system for IT compliance tasks, Q&A system for controlled unclassified information handling, and AI agent for compliance audit, saving 80+ hrs/person/yr (approximately 400+ hrs/yr).
  • Created application to fetch proposals to change regulations (dockets), saving 32+ hrs/docket (approximately 768+ hrs/yr).

AI/ML Engineer Intern

Lockheed Martin, Chief of Data Analytics Office / May 2023—Aug 2024

  • Migrated legacy Domino system to AI Factory, saving $2M+ in subscription costs and introducing MLOps practices in alignment with 1LMX.
  • Rearchitected corporate-wide website from Angular to WordPress, saving 120 hrs/yr in maintenance costs.
  • Fine-tuned BERT & used bipartite matching to match candidates to roles in internal leadership development program, saving 56 hrs/yr.
  • Developed retrieval-augmented discrepancy reports system using StreamLit and AI factory for Solumina, automating discrepancy reports.

Open Source Contributor

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) / May—Aug 2025

  • Selected as a contributor (top 1,300 globally) for JabRef (4k+ stars) with a $3,000 stipend.
  • Enhanced onboarding experience, built declarative API for UI creation (similar to Tipkits), and event-driven rendering system in JavaFX.

Medlytics Student

MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute / Jun—Aug 2024

  • Developed medical image visual question and answering system through CLIP and Word2Vec (ImageCLEF2023), achieving 80%+ accuracy and surpassing the State-of-the-Art accuracy by 5%.

Founder & President

HackGwinnett / Oct 2022—Oct 2024

  • Organized largest high school hackathons in Georgia three times ('23, '24, '25), with 200+ attendees, 50+ schools, and 10+ counties each.
  • Hosted CS days for K-5 (200+ attendees) and raised $2,000+ partnering with State Farm & Amazon.

Independent Researcher

Gwinnett School of Math, Sci, and Tech / Sep 2022—May 2025

  • Developed a novel locality-aware attention model for gene annotation, achieved near perfect accuracy, and presented at GA Junior Science & Humanities Symposium 2025.
  • Developed gene therapy for chronic myeloid leukemia using CRISPR-Cas9 and chitosan polymers. Presented at American Society of Human Genetics 2024 conference as only high school project globally.

Technical Skills

Languages

PythonJavaJavaScriptTypeScriptSQLRustKotlinC/C++Dart

AI/ML

PyTorchPandasScikit-learnLangChainLlama-IndexHugging FaceRAGNLP

MLOps

AI FactoryDockerPrometheusCI/CD

Web

Next.jsTailwindNode.jsWordPressStreamLit

Cybersecurity

Linux CLI/bash scriptingsystem hardeningIDA

Tools

GitAgileJiraConfluenceMS Power AutomateOffice 365SharePoint

Awards & Honors

  • Carnegie Mellon picoCTF: Top 8 of 1,498 US teams ('23); top 10% in US ('24)
  • LM CodeQuest: Top 3 in nation ('23) & 1st in state ('25); LM CyberQuest: 1st in state ('24, '25)
  • CyberPatriot: 4th in nation & 1st in state ('23); top 1% in nation ('24)
  • Coolidge Senator: Top 100 of 4,200+ global applicants with $1,000 Scholarship ('24)
  • Georgia Governor's Honors Program: Finalist for Software Engineering (top 13 statewide)