Ryan Yin

USA Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO)qualifier

Qualified for the 2026 USAMO, an invitation to roughly 300 students nationwide. Perfect score on the AMC 12A, with 2x Honor Roll of Distinction and 2x Distinction.

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USA Physics Olympiad (USAPhO)silverbronze

Silver Medal 2026, one of 84 students nationally at Silver or above; Bronze Medal 2025. Also a perfect score on the 2026 PhysicsBowl, on The Village School's first-place Division 2 team in Texas.

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USA Computing Olympiad (USACO)platinumgold

Platinum (2024-25), the top division of America's premier high school programming olympiad, reached by the top 1-2% of contestants; Gold in the 2025-26 season.

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USA Astronomy & Astrophysics Olympiad (USAAAO)bronze

Bronze Medal 2025 with a top-30 national finish; qualified for the National Astronomy Competition in both 2025 and 2026.

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Stochastic biochemical modeling, University of Houstonresearch

Built a delayed stochastic simulation of a repressor protein that shuts down its own production, then made the delay queue lossy so a pending production event can be destroyed before it matures. Ran the study for Professor Ott's group on how loss affects oscillator precision.

Reinforcement learning for inventory control (ORSuite)ongoing

A firm can order from a fast expensive supplier or a slow cheap one, and the split is the whole problem. Modernizing that dual-sourcing environment in ORSuite, Professor Sinclair's open-source operations research library, and testing whether reinforcement learning agents beat the standard ordering heuristic.

Asset allocation project, Northwestern IEMS 313course development

Wrote course material rather than coursework for Northwestern's Foundations of Optimization, building the scenario-generation engine that turns real market history into the finite set of future return scenarios each student's portfolio model is optimized against.

Spotify Marketing Analysis: A Pathway for Future Growthpublished · FEMIB '25

Traced how Spotify holds its lead as bundled rivals close in. Argued in the Journal of Research High School that its pricing power rests on listener loyalty, and that the real threat is not another streaming app but platforms paying artists directly.

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UK ports and airports energy datadata pipelines

Scraped MarineTraffic port calls and Flightradar24 flight histories using browser automation for a hydrogen-demand study with Professor Xie's group at Cranfield University. Converted vessel time at berth and auxiliary power unit (APU) burn across each turnaround into per-site energy estimates.

Open-source sustainability, George Mason ASSIPresearch intern · '24-'25

Mined GitHub histories of blockchain open-source projects with BigQuery to find which governance and funding structures predict long-term maintenance. Also evaluated Intel's TDX confidential computing by replicating a published Management Science study securely in the cloud.

Columbia Law Review Essay Competition5th of 160

Honorable Mention for an essay on the First Amendment and content moderation in Murthy v. Missouri.

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Scholastic Art & Writing Awardsnational silver medal

National recognition in Personal Essay & Memoir, plus 3 Gold Keys and 5 Silver Keys across Short Story, Poetry, and Flash Fiction.

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Wharton Global High School Investment Competitionglobal finalist

Led Asgard Assets to the Global Finale, one of 11 finalist teams from ~2,300 submissions worldwide, building the end-to-end quantitative framework: portfolio optimization, Monte Carlo simulation, risk analysis.

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Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)national runner-up

Second in the nation in Introduction to Information Technology and third in Human Resource Management, after winning state titles in back-to-back years.

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The Village School Startup Challenge1st place

Best Business Execution with Blend, a startup built over 12 weeks.

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databallrsoftware engineer intern · '26

Interned on the backend of an NBA analytics site with 40k+ daily visitors. Building and optimizing an NBA stock market where players trade like equities.

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Foreman (formerly ScoutOut)yc w26 intern · '25

Interned at a construction AI startup on expansion strategy. Sized markets across three metros and built the DCF model behind the go or no-go call.

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BaseSplitcoinbase ai hackathon · '25

Telegram bot for AI-powered crypto bill splitting, built in 48 hours: receipt parsing with OpenAI vision through to EIP-681 payment links on Base.

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Slack Prediction Market Botindependent · '25

A full prediction market inside Slack: stake-weighted odds, virtual currency, PostgreSQL-backed portfolios, and automated resolution.

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