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Publications, awards, education, research, and teaching milestones from Weiping Yan.
| Sep 08, 2026 | I began my undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota as Fall 2026 classes began on September 8, 2026. |
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| Sep 08, 2026 | A revised version of our co-authored manuscript, “OAM-GA: Reliability-Guided Motion Completion for Occlusion-RobustGaussian Avatars,” was posted on OpenReview for DAI 2026. The submission remains under review, with a decision pending; it has not been accepted or published. |
| Sep 08, 2026 | Six of my pull requests were merged upstream between August 4 and September 8, 2026: Power Grid Model #1516, #1518, and #1540; LensKit #1209; M* #235; and PISA #641. The accepted changes cover update validation and sensor semantics, performance documentation, recommender warnings, media decoding and error handling, and retrieval type safety. |
| Jul 01, 2026 | I began an NLP Research Internship with the Minnesota NLP Group at the University of Minnesota. |
| May 02, 2026 | I co-founded Veylora Labs to explore executive-intelligence systems for organizational decision support. |
| Mar 01, 2026 | I began working as a Research Assistant at The Chinese University of Hong Kong on LLM4Rec and artificial-intelligence research. |
| Jan 31, 2026 | I earned an official Kaggle Bronze Medal in the Santa 2025 Christmas Tree Packing Challenge, placing 186th of 3,357 teams. |
| Dec 01, 2025 | I received First Prize in the 2025 National College Student Mathematics Ability Challenge and National First Prize in the “Science and Innovation Cup” Mathematical Modeling Knowledge Competition track. |
| Sep 01, 2025 | I began serving as a Teaching Assistant at TU/e, supporting calculus and logic/set theory. |
| Jul 02, 2025 | I began a research assistantship at Zhangjiang Laboratory, studying IC design and EDA workflows through verification and MPW-oriented preparation. |
| Jul 01, 2025 | I received First Prize in the CTSS College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, with TU/e listed as my affiliated institution. |
| Sep 01, 2024 | I began concurrent undergraduate studies across Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Applied Physics at TU Delft and TU/e. |
| Nov 13, 2023 | My paper, “Effect of PM2.5 air pollution on the incidence of respiratory diseases: A Python-based data analysis,” was published in Theoretical and Natural Science. The analysis used synthetic, randomly generated data. |