๐โโ๏ธ About me
Hi! Iโm Evelyn, a fourth-year undergraduate student at UC San Diego, double majoring in Data Science and Mathematics-Economics. Iโm passionate about combining data analytics with my domain knowledge to craft AI-powered solutions that reflect my commitment to thoughtfulness, responsibility, and humanity.
When Iโm not deep in data, you can find me enjoying a good movie, catching a stunning sunset at La Jolla Shores (itโs the best!), or making myself to a fresh manicure. Iโm all about finding joy in the little things and keeping life vibrant and fun! โจ
๐ Educations
- 2019.09z - 2025.06: Bachelor of Science, University of California, San Diego
- 2025.08 - 2026.12: MLDS, Northwestern University
๐ฌ Research
- 2024.04 - present: Undergraduate Researcher at MixLab @ UCSD HDSI
- 2024.01 - 2024.04 : Undergraduate Researcher at The Economic Research Lab
Do Vision-Language Models Have an Internal World Model? Towards an Atomic Evaluation
Qiyue Gao*, Xinyu Pi*, Kevin Liu, Junrong Chen, Ruolan Yang, Xinqi Huang, Xinyu Fang, Lu Sun, et al. arXiv:2506.21876 ยท Website
๐ป๐ Internships and Teaching
- 2023.09 - present : I have been a Tutor for Math20A and Math10B, as well as an Instructional Assistant for Econ120A and Cogs9 at UC San Diego, supporting these courses during different quarters.
- 2024.08 - 2024.09: Data Analyst Intern at POIZON
- 2023.08 - 2023.10 : Business Analyst Intern at Arthur D. Little
๐ง Projects

Financial market volatility, driven by economic conditions, corporate shocks, and investor behavior, makes stock return forecasting highly challenging.
Traditional methods, such as macroeconomic analysis and sentiment analysis, have limitations in capturing the complex relationships between stock returns and external factors.
Our goal is to develop an advanced stock return prediction framework that leverages causal discovery algorithms to enhance interpretability and accuracy.

Storytelling Visualization: Campaigning on Twitter
Explore the โword warโ of the 2016 election through this storytelling project! Using NLP, sentiment analysis, and interactive visualizations, we uncovered how candidates turned Twitter into a campaign battlefield, shaping the outcome one tweet at a time.

Predictive task: Advancing Multimodal Sentiment Analysis through Enhanced Sarcasm Detection
Sarcasm Hard to Catch? Not Anymore! This project combines text and audio to detect sarcasm, making sentiment analysis easier. We thoughtfully designed every step, from data collection and feature engineering to model building. With our sarcasm detection model, weโve cracked the code of complex emotions. Because sometimes, tone says it all!

Casual Discovery: Algorithm Comparison on Simulated Mental Health and Remote Work data
Dive into this project to discover how well different causal algorithms uncover relationships between variables! Explore how a personโs work enviroment, daily habits and mental health connect in our simulated dataset.

Data Minning: Used Car Price Prediction
Ever wondered what drives the price of a second-hand car? We built an XGB Regressor that beat baseline models by over 50% in RMSE. From mileage to color quirks, we unraveled the secrets behind used car pricing with data minning! ๐โจ

Storytelling Visualization: Pattern of US City Names
Discover how US cities got their names from around the world! Explore migration and immigration patterns through the checkboxes, hover to the points for details, and read the story to see how history shaped these connections.
Explore more projects in my GitHub page! Dive in and join me as I continue creating, learning, and growing! ๐โจ
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