Hey, I’m Yue Chen1 / YC. I am building Devin at Cognition and previously worked on oversight models for LLMs at Transluce. I recently graduated with a degree in Math & CS/CogSci from MIT, where I researched distributed systems, perception, and formal verification.
I’m interested in artificial intelligence, systems, and programming languages.
In the past, I worked at Netic, Jane Street, Amazon Science’s Automated Reasoning Group, Genesis Therapeutics, and Gomu. I’ve worked on performance engineering in OCaml, published research on verified code generation with LLMs, and built a collaborative online whiteboard, Loci. I was a medallist at the International Olympiad in Informatics in a past life on the sunny island of Singapore.
Nowadays, I enjoy2 breaking and juggling3. I hope to play the drums in a band again someday. I like learning languages4, listening to copious amounts of music, reading, hiking, and traveling.
Man is condemned to be free — Jean-Paul Sartre
my first name has 2 words; I don’t have a middle name. ‘Yue’ is pronounced /ye/ but /juːˈeɪ/ gets you pretty close ↩︎
not really in any particular order, and not all at once (yet) ↩︎
I’m most comfortable with balls, but I’m working on clubs, knives, and diabolos ↩︎
speak to me in English, Chinese, and (will do my best) German! ↩︎