Curriculum Vitae

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Education

University of California, Berkeley
B.A. Computer Science, B.A. Mathematics(expected) 2026 – 2028
Tsinghua University (Beijing, PRC)
Visiting student, Dept. of Computer Science and TechnologySpring 2026
University of California, Santa Barbara
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Mathematics(transferred out) 2024 — 2025

Experience

03/25 — now
Earth
Hacker at MIT OpenCompute Lab
  • Organizing/participating in reading groups, hardware/software projects
11/24 — 06/25
Santa Barbara, CA
Systems programmer at UCSB Robotics Lab
  • Designed reproducible build systems massively speeding up development iteration
  • Creating 3D simulacrums of laboratory experiments that are reproduced in real life, using C++, React, and Three.js
11/24 — now
Earth
Open source maintainer at NixOS
  • Maintaining nixpkgs & NixOS, a purely functional GNU/Linux distribution built on the Nix package manager and Nix programming language
09/22 — 06/24
SF Bay Area, CA
Artificial intelligence lead at FIRST Robotics Team 1280
  • Worked on autonomous decision making and path planning algorithms
  • Replaced the venerable BozoAuto autonomous subroutine with the DeepBozo autonomous suite
  • Designed a novel robot control dashboard with 3D visualization using Rust, Tauri, and Svelte
  • Won 2022 Monterey Bay Regional Competition

Projects

2025
Colmena Maps
  • Embodied agentic AI system that hunts down any desired item in Google Streetview using novel geospatial intelligence and spacetime-embeddings
  • Won HackMIT 2025 Grand Prize (worth over US$4,000)
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2025
Virion
  • Compartmental epidemic modeler and 3D pandemic visualizer for the H5N1 avian influenza in the United States
  • Won award at the UCSB DataOrbit Hackathon
View codeTry demo
2025
web.youwen.dev (this website)
  • Powered by a fully custom handrolled static site generator, written in Rust
  • Accessible, perfect 100s on Google’s Lighthouse benchmark
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2024
functorOS
  • A highly experimental NixOS based Linux® distribution
View code
2024
Jankboard
  • A bespoke driver control dashboard for Team 1280′s 2024 competition robot
  • Tauri application, with Svelte frontend and Rust glue code to communicate with robot
  • 3D robot visualization using Three.js
View code
2024
eeXiv
  • An arXiv clone for archiving research documents written by Team 1280, a FIRST Robotics team
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Awards and honors

2026
College of Engineering Glen Culler Scholarship (UCSB)
2025
George H. Griffiths and Olive J. Griffiths Scholarship (UCSB)
2025
HackMIT 2025 Grand Prize
2024 — 2025
Dean’s Honors ×3
2024
National Merit Semifinalist