Tianlang (Jackie) Chen

Tianlang (Jackie) Chen

B.S.E. Candidate, Data Science

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Professional Summary

I study Data Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I came here through the UM-SJTU dual-degree program: the first half of my undergraduate degree was Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Joint Institute, the second half is Data Science at Michigan. It was less a change of heart than a change of tools.

Education

B.S.E. Data Science

2025-09-01

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Mechanical Engineering (Dual Degree)

2023-09-01
2025-05-31

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, UM-SJTU Joint Institute

Interests

AI for Science AI for Decision Making Genomic Foundation Models LLM Workflows & Agents

Internship

WeCom Full-Stack Developer, Intern

Mars Asia — Global IT Service Center

Full-stack WeCom development in JavaScript, Node.js and Vue.js. API and interface work, data migration, and cross-platform retrieval. Built the automation that kept operations continuous through a system migration.
Research

Three questions I keep circling: AI for science, AI for decision-making, and what data-driven methods are actually worth once they leave the benchmark.

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AI-Guided Environmental Sensing & Adaptive Monitoring

Where should you put the next sensor in Lake Michigan? Let uncertainty decide.

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Applets for Data Analytics in Materials Science

Turning materials-science analysis into something you can just... upload a CSV to.

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EPCOT Foundation Model — TSS-to-Expression Data Pipeline

Made a genomic foundation model 2–5× faster to train — and found a 50 kb bug that was quietly wrecking its interpretability.

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Functional Genomic Representation Learning for Microbial Communities

A parameter-free way to turn a whole microbial community into one honest vector.

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LLM for Incentive Design in Mobility Systems

Can an LLM design the incentives that make shared mobility actually work?

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More steamers on the next cart · 敬請期待

More work is on the way — this slot exists so the room to grow is visible.

Publications
In preparation.
Skills
Languages
Python
C
C++
JavaScript
SQL
R
MATLAB
Java
Bash
LLM & Agentic AI
Prompt Engineering
Structured Prompting
RAG
LLM Workflow Design
Agent-Guided Code Generation
Output Validation
Hallucination Mitigation
ML & Data
PyTorch
scikit-learn
Gaussian Processes
Foundation-Model Fine-Tuning
Web
Node.js
Vue.js
HTML
CSS
Data Stores
MySQL
SQLite
HDF5
Tools
Git
Slurm / HPC
Blender
SolidWorks
Additional Experience
Teaching Assistant, General Physics
Shanghai Jiao Tong University ∙ May 2025
Teaching Assistant, English Academic Writing
Shanghai Jiao Tong University ∙ March 2025
Honorable Mention, MCM/ICM
COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling ∙ January 2025
Languages
English
Professional
Mandarin
Native
Cantonese
Native