Yihan Pang
Research Assistant at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYihan Pang is a research-focused software engineer and PhD candidate at UIUC with nine years of experience specializing in energy-efficient, real-time XR and spatial computing systems. Her work blends systems-level optimization and batched processing techniques to deliver low-power, high-performance experiences for extended reality platforms. She has a strong academic foundation from Virginia Tech (BS/MS in Computer Engineering) and a track record of research and teaching assistant roles that underscore both technical depth and mentoring ability. Prior industry exposure in investment banking/asset management provides uncommon domain perspective for applied systems problems. Based in Champaign, Illinois, she brings a rigorously experimental approach to bridging theoretical research and practical XR system implementations.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia TechYorktown High SchoolUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (35)
openxr10
augmented-reality10
computer-architecture10
testbed10
slam8
robotics8
point-cloud7
compression7
mesh6
3d-graphics6
3d5
jekyll5
siggraph5
imu4
3d-reconstruction4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jianxiapyh/jianxiapyh.github.io
Aug 2019 - Mar 2026
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:147 pushes in 6 years 8 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
jianxiapyh/ILLIXR_multiapp_doc
Feb 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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