Yihan Hong — engineer, and a few other things.

I’m Yihan, a computer engineering and CS student at USC. Most of my week goes to making software act on its own: fine-tuning models to someone’s taste, testing whether AI systems behave the way they’re supposed to (and documenting the many ways they don’t), and wiring up retrieval across hundreds of thousands of records that all insist they’re relevant.

The rest of my time is less structured. Fifteen years of piano, three of tenor sax, some photography, and more movies than a person can reasonably defend. I also play badminton with a level of competitiveness the sport did not ask for and cannot contain.

So I’m just an engineer, and a few other things. Really — the “few other things” are where most of the personality lives.

Summer 2027 is still unclaimed. If you’re building something interesting, say hi.