Hi👋 I’m Hannah.
I’m a Master’s student in Data Science at the University of Washington. My research explores how computing can help us better understand cultural heritage and make information more accessible through language.
Update: My co-authored paper, Beyond Readability Metrics: Plain Language Priorities in Disability Advocacy Organizations, has been accepted to ACM FAccT 2026!
Education
University of Washington · Seattle, WA
Applied Statistics & Experimental Design · Software Design · Data Viz · Probability
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI
NLP · ML · Data Mining · Databases · Web Systems · UI Development · Theory of Computation
Publications
Beyond Readability Metrics: Plain Language Priorities in Disability Advocacy Organizations
Viral Images: Identifying Re-printings within 1.5 Million Photographs in Chronicling America
Research (overview)
UW · Lab for Computing Cultural Heritage
- Analyzing clusters from 1.5M+ archival newspaper images to study visual reuse and circulation.
- Built scalable lookup pipelines and concept labeling with CLIP embeddings.
UW · Language Accessibility Research Lab
- Developing segmentation + semantic alignment pipelines for original vs. plain-language text.
- Evaluating alignment quality and linguistic changes with metrics + qualitative analysis.
MobiDrop (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd
- Pretrained scGPT on single-cell RNA-seq data; curated and processed large CELLxGENE samples.
- Automated GPU training workflows with checkpointing and experiment tracking.
Industry Experience (overview)
Develop for Good · Product Manager, PainUSA
- Led a 5-person team to deliver a nonprofit website and interactive clinician lookup map.
- Coordinated stakeholders, design handoff, and deployment documentation.
Ternary · Software Engineer Intern (Product Delivery)
- Integrated Prophet into a cloud cost forecasting API for daily/weekly predictions.
- Improved reliability via CV, tuning, confidence intervals, and CI test coverage.
University of Michigan · MDP (ProQuest Team)
- Built an automated segmentation pipeline for historical newspaper front pages (images + OCR).
- Validated pipeline variants and improved throughput and quality.
Pachira Information Technology (Hengqin) Co., Ltd
- Enhanced a RAG pipeline for an in-car Toyota voice assistant (accuracy, safety, interaction quality).
- Implemented query handling components and deployed iterations for simulator testing.
Skills
Languages
PythonRSQLGo
C/C++JavaScript/TypeScriptBash
HTML/CSS
Tools & Platforms
GitLinuxDockerTerraform
AWSGCPMongoDBIBM Db2
TableauJupyterCondaGitHub Actions
Frameworks & Libraries
PyTorchscikit-learnFastAPIReact
LangChainNode.jsPandasNumPy
DaskOpenCVXGBoostLightGBM
Contact
Email: yuerans@uw.edu