Joy Yang
“Why does it matter how the universe came to be?” “Because you’re part of it. Because you exist. And unless you want to only ever be a tiny modicum of existence that doesn’t understand its relation to the grander web of things, you will explore.” — R. F. Kuang, The Poppy War
about
- currently studying cs and government at oxford / georgetown, doing research at vgg
- also a d1 sailor, chronic overthinker, builder of things that probably started as side quests
what i've done
- intern at openai - gov infrastructure, VendingBench, and autonomous-agent prototypes
- work with joao henriques at oxford vgg - point-track representations for manipulation policies
- some startup policy and AI governance work at google
- built vinsta.ai, shopkeep gpt (project vend 2.0), and some other cool stuff that you can see on my github
what next
- writing more in the blog
- continuing research on point tracks, occlusion, deformable objects, and pose-free manipulation representations
- getting into ai safety research. more to come on this!