Hi, I'm Aidan!
- I'm on the job market for teaching-focused faculty positions! Feel free to reach out to me at aidan.w.san@gmail.com.
- I'm a 7th year PhD candidate born in Virginia and studying at the University of Virginia.
- I'm happily studying Natural Language Processing and the intersection of AI and Education advised by Prof. Yangfeng Ji.
- I'm grateful to be fully funded by the Dean's Scholar Fellowship (3 years) and the Distinguished Fellowship.
- I received my undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Magna Cum Laude in Computer Science + Linguistics, and my MCS at UVA.
- In my free time, I enjoy playing guitar, playing board games, and cooking.
Contact Info:
Email: aidan.w.san@gmail.comPronouns: he or they (no preference)
Experience:
- UVA CS2120 Instructor of Record (Spring 2025) - Instructor for one section of Discrete Math (134 students)
- UVA CS1111 Instructor of Record (Fall 2024) - Instructor for one section of Intro. to Programming - Accelerated (78 students)
- UVA CS1110 Instructor of Record (Fall 2023) - Instructor for one section of Intro. to Programming (30 students)
- UVA CS1110 Instructor of Record (Spring 2022) - Instructor for one section of Intro. to Programming (138 students)
- Microsoft Intern (Summer 2024) - Explored LLM robustness on the Deep Learning team
- Amazon Applied Science Intern (Summer 2022) - Worked on automated question generation exploring reinforcement learning approaches
- Amazon Applied Science Intern (Summer 2021) - Designed a dataset to train and evaluate language models on the Alexa AI team
- Grail SWE Intern (Summer 2019) - Worked on improving tooling for cancer detection assay
- Facebook SWE Intern (Summer 2018) - Worked to improve translation data quality on the Applied Machine Learning team
- Space Chair of UVA CSGSG (Spring 2019-Fall 2021) - Managed budget for the CS lounge and organized events