Yvette Chen

Exploring philosophy and computation

UC Berkeley '29 CDSS

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About

I'm a first-year student at UC Berkeley studying Computer Science with particular interests in reasoning & inference in AI systems.

I seek to understand and create complex systems through computational and theoretical frameworks.

My work spans computer vision, natural language processing, and computational theories that reveal pattern and chaos.

See my CV here.

R&D Experiences

AI Research Intern

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL)

Oct 2025 - Present

Collaborating within Keenan’s Group to architect a multi-agent AI framework designed for individual tree labeling and uncertainty classification & quantification in biomass estimation.

Engineering multimodal pipelines to process and interpret spatial data, including 3D point clouds and raster data.

Applying multi-step reasoning workflows and prompt design to automate the classification of structural complexity in forest canopy datasets.

Multi-Step Reasoning Multi-Agent Systems LLM Computer Vision

Student NLP Researcher

UC Berkeley

Oct 2025 - Present

Investigated gender bias in LLMs using NLP analysis on gender-blind résumés, employing prompt-sensitivity testing and vertical comparison between DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-V3 models.

Designed a methodological framework to isolate the effect of alignment post-training, revealing that gendered framing persists as latent encoding in representation space despite surface-level behavioral constraints.

Demonstrated that bias is reinforced through linguistic form, producing novel insights into the limitations of alignment training and contributing to broader discourse on stereotype consolidation in language models.

Read the paper here.

NLP Analysis AI Ethics Post-Train Algorithms LLM Probing & Tracing

Software & Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Berkeley StEP

Sep 2025 - Present

Developing non-radiographic, home-based scoliosis detection, tracking & rehabilitation platform.

Engineering a Computer Vision Pipeline using OpenCV to process user-submitted scans, reconstruct high-fidelity digital twins, and extract critical spinal geometry for model prediction.

Deploying full-stack, cross-platform applications.

PyTorch FastAPI Node.js Computer Vision (OpenCV) Deep Learning

Lead Computational Modeling Engineer

S.-T. Yau High School Science Award

May 2022 - Sep 2024

Developed statistical learning pipelines using a Linear Mixed Model in MATLAB to perform high-dimensional, covariate-controlled analysis on a large-scale neuroimaging dataset. Applied graph theory algorithms to model structural covariance. See the publication here.

MATLAB Graph Theory Algorithms Machine Learning Computational Modelling LaTeX

Computer Science Researcher

National College Math Modeling & Data Analysis Competition

May 2024

Engineered an end-to-end NLP pipeline using Python, NLTK, and scikit-learn to preprocess 450k+ text data (tokenization, lemmatization, stop-word removal) and extract features via TF-IDF vectorization.

Proactively enhanced model robustness by curating training sets to address complex NLP challenges (sarcasm, slang, and multilingual text).

Python NLP (NLTK, TF-IDF) Sci-kit Learn Machine Learning

Research Lead

International Space Settlement Design Competition

Apr 2023 - Jul 2024

Led China's first Grand Slam delegation, analyzing particulate hazards and designing defense systems based on particle-matter interaction models.

Particle Physics Simulation Systems Design Leadership

Projects

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NLP Research

On Gendered Framing as a Latent Encoding in Technical Self-Representation and Evaluation

Python Optimization NLTK
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Computational Sciences Research

fMRI Data Analysis using Graph Theoretical Algorithms and ML

Machine Learning Computational Neuroscience
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Random Stuffs

Grafity: LLM-Augmented Semantic Expansion & Ideation Canvas

Python FastAPI OpenAI
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