Ying Chen

Education

Style Preference Optimization for Machine Revision Text Detection (AAAI, 2025). Paper, Code.
Research Journey of Generative Protein Modeling (NeurIPS, 2025). Open Review.
Symbolic Representation for Any-to-Any Generative Tasks (CVPR, 2025, Under Review).

AI Research Intern - Applied Technologies for Learning in the Arts & Sciences, UIUC (Jan. 2024 - May 2024)
- Simulated human-like NPC interactions with specific persona settings using LLMs like LLaMA and ChatGPT.
- Participated in troubleshooting and prompting to improve the simulation’s performance with the AI team.
Web Developer - Applied Technologies for Learning in the Arts & Sciences, UIUC (Jan. 2024 - May 2024)
- Created and designed a modern website for St. Andrew Lutheran Campus Center using WordPress and Drupal.
- Held in-person meetings with the client and web team weekly to gain requirements and feedback.
Course Assistant - Department of Computer Science, UIUC (Aug. 2023 - Present)
- Tutored about 15 students with Java programming challenges and materials for 10 hours each week.
- Produced 7+ Java instructional walkthroughs on the course website as part of daily course materials.

Rate My Courses: A web application for course reviews (Jan. 2024 – May 2024)
- Developed the front-end using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and integrated a Flask back-end.
- Implemented a MySQL database for user authentication and course reviews.
ICare: A health management system (Sep. 2024 – Dec. 2024)
- Developed a full-stack web server using Node.js and Express.js.
- Configured and optimized SQL queries using a MySQL database hosted on Google Cloud SQL.

Languages: English, Mandarin
Programming Languages/Tools: Python, Java, C++, C, R, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL
Developing Tools: Git, Flask, Pytorch, Unreal, React.js, Node.js, WordPress
Software: Statistical Analysis Software, Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro