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Experience

Internship

June 2026 – Present

Incoming Software Engineering Intern

Google Banqiao Office

Incoming SWE intern at Google Taiwan.

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Internship

Sep 2025 – June 2026

Software Engineering Intern

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)

Built full-stack internal tools and data pipelines to optimize manufacturing and monitoring workflows:

• Designed and implemented full-stack web applications utilizing React and AG Grid for robust data visualization.
• Developed efficient backend APIs using FastAPI and optimized data processing pipelines to handle large-scale data.
• Automated web scraping and data ingestion workflows using scheduled cron jobs for reliable database storage.

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Education

Sep 2023 – Jun 2027

B.S. in Computer Science

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU)

GPA: 4.28 / 4.3

Rank: 2 / 197 (1.02%)

Advisor: Prof. Yu-Lun Liu

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News

• Apr 2026 Awarded Academic Excellence Award (書卷獎) for Fall 2025 Semester — Top 5% in class.
• Apr 2026 Awarded Core Fundamental Course Award (核心基礎課程獎) in Introduction to Operating Systems — 2nd place out of 195 students.
• Nov 2025 Awarded Academic Excellence Award for Spring 2025 Semester — Top 5% in class.
• Nov 2025 Awarded Core Fundamental Course Award in Computer Organization — 2nd place out of 79 students.
• Sep 2025 Started internship at TSMC.
• Apr 2025 Awarded Academic Excellence Award for Fall 2024 Semester — Top 5% in class.
• Nov 2024 Awarded University Calculus Award for 2024 Spring Semester — Top 20 among all 1,162 students.
• Nov 2024 Awarded Core Fundamental Course Award in Data Structures & Object-oriented Programming — 1st place out of 90 students.
• Apr 2024 Awarded Academic Excellence Award for Fall 2023 Semester — Top 5% in class.
• Sep 2023 Enrolled as an undergraduate at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.

Publications

arXiv 2026

YoCausal: How Far is Video Generation from World Model? A Causality Perspective

You-Zhe Xie*, Yu-Hsuan Li*, Jie-Ying Lee, Kaipeng Zhang, Yu-Lun Liu†, Zhixiang Wang†

*Equal contribution  †Corresponding authors

The first benchmark evaluating causal understanding in video generation models. Our benchmark can incorporate any real-world video at zero cost, making it arbitrarily extensible to easily assess video generation models' understanding of diverse types of causality.

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Projects

Guitar Tutor for the Blind

Sep 2025

Python FastAPI React Google AI

• 2025 MC Hackathon × Google — AI-powered mobile web app for visually impaired users to learn guitar
• Real-time audio feedback and voice-guided instruction via Google AI APIs
• Python / FastAPI backend + React frontend over local HTTPS to Android

GitHub Slides

NYCU Deep Learning Labs

Feb 2025

Python PyTorch Diffusion RL

• 7 labs for NYCU Deep Learning & Practice course — scored 97/100 and 96/100
• Semantic segmentation (U-Net), image inpainting (MaskGIT), video prediction (VAE)
• Conditional image generation (DDPM) and reinforcement learning (DQN, PPO, A2C)

GitHub

LLM-Assisted Paper Search

Jun 2024

Python LangChain RAG Discord

• Discord bot for natural language arXiv paper retrieval and bilingual summarization
• RAG pipeline with LangChain + GPT-3.5; paper database built via Selenium scraping
• 96.6% content relevance across 30 test cases

GitHub Blog

2D Zombie Survival

Aug 2023

Unity C# Game Dev 2D Physics

• Solo-developed 2D survival shooter — survive 15 minutes of escalating zombie waves
• Collect XP to level up; pick 1-of-3 upgrades from 11 skills and 5-tier weapons
• Built entirely from scratch in C#: status effects (freeze / slow / burn / knockback), coroutines, and late-game frame-rate optimization

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