Alan Yang

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Hi, I'm Alan, a junior at Rice University studying CS & Statistics. I'm intersted in software, AI, and startups. Currently: shipping BreakIn and working on side projects exploring deceptive AIs.

Experience

BreakIn — Co-Founder / Software Engineer

Apr 2025 — Present

BreakIn is a platform that allows students recruiting for finance internships to automate their entire networking process. Scaled to 2,000+ users and over 100k ARR. Built semantic search for over 40k+ banker profiles and received CASA Tier-2 security certification.

Baylor College of Medicine — Research

May 2024 — May 2025

Built LLM powered pipeline to process and annotate 2,000+ research papers and wrote R scripts to analyze Illumina array datasets for CoRSIV vs non-CoRSIV probes/regions. Co-authored a manuscript on systemic epigenentic variants, accepted to Nucleic Acids Research; first-authored an abstract on CoRSIV stability analysis, accepted to the 13th DOHaD World Congress.

Nandi Security — Software Development Intern

Aug 2024 — Dec 2024

Created a mobile app using Flutter and Dart to display privacy, DNS anomalies, and internet activity. Built a GAN-based detection model with 97% accuracy for suspicious traffic and potential malware.

Projects