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Stephen Yang
Stanford, CA
I'm on leave from Stanford (Math & CS, class of '29) to work full-time at Mechanize. My research uses LLMs to study innovation quality and patenting disparities — sitting at the intersection of AI and economics.
Currently
Software Engineer at Mechanize
Building RL environments for SWE agents
Previously Junior SWE (Jan–Mar '26)
Say hello
yang29@stanford.edu
Selected Papers
Research at the intersection of AI and economics.
Working Paper·2025
Understanding Innovation Quality and Success with Large-Language Models
Stephen Yang
Working Paper·2025
Understanding Patenting Disparities via Causal Human+Machine Learning
Lin William Cong, Stephen Yang
Working Paper·2024
Endogenous Fracturing under Partisan Voting
Baozhong Yang, Stephen Yang