Victoria Yang

Stanford University · Stanford, CA 94305 · Email Me

An unexamined life is not worth living, and the three axes that triangulate and direct Victoria's are impact, knowledge, and empathy.

Victoria is studing Economics and Computer Science at Stanford, and she is passionate about education, social entrepreneurship, emerging markets, and public interest technology.

Upon coming to Stanford from Chengdu, China, she has explored both public and private sectors. From serving as a research analyst in European Policy Institute in Skopje, North Macedonia on economic policy, to as a BD China Associate for a non-profit promoting education and design thinking, she has become increasingly interested in technology and the private sector. Victoria has been working on and leading projects in Stanford Consulting for the past two years, which took her to her last summer internship at Gusto, a unicorn SF-based startup, as corporate development intern working on product and partnership strategy. Most recently, she enjoys learning to build this website, learning algorithms and applying it to market design problems, and reading philosophy.

She is actively looking for opportunitis in strategy, venture capital, data analytics, and startups. She is always ready to get her hands dirty and solve challenging problems that lays her way.


Education

Stanford University

Master of Science, Computer Science
Human Computer Interaction Track

Courses: Data structures and algorithms(CS106A/B, CS161), set theory and group theory (CS103), real analysis (Math 115), probability theory (CS109), social computing (CS278), computer systems (CS107), Natural Language Processing (CS 124)


Bachelor of Arts, Economics
Concentration: Market Design, Developmental Economics

Courses: Market Design, Economics of Education, Developmental Economics, Behavioral Economic, Econometrics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics (ECON 52, ECON 210)

September 2017 - June 2022

Pearson United World College (High School)

International Baccalaureate

44/45 (top 1% worldwide), SAT I: 2310, self-taught 4 SAT IIs and 5 APs (all 5s)

August 2015 - June 2017

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
  • Python
  • C/C++
  • Java
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • SQL
  • Non-Technical Skills


June 11, 2020

Sexual harassment and assault at Stanford and beyond: A closer look at the data

Published @ The Stanford Daily

Along with Shao-Fang Wang, we investigated the results from the 2019 Association of American Universities (AAU) survey on sexual assault and misconduct to better understand the views and experiences of Stanford students compared to those at three other universities (Harvard, MIT and Ohio State University).


October 18, 2018

Lessons from my internship in the Balkans

Published @ The Stanford Daily.
I also wrote on the same topic in Chinesee Here

The example of Macedonia points to an important yet century-old wrestling, in which parties measure themselves against the “other,” drawing lines where the “self” ends and the “other” begins.




January 1, 2021

关于双语夹杂和身份认同的杂思

Published @ Official WeChat Account

也许正是因为这几年四处漂泊、经历了四海都不是家的感觉后,觉得语言才是为数不多还可以守护的东西。


July 29, 2018

"西巴尔干"的"欧洲”身份危机——观察者的反思

Published @ Official WeChat Account

"'欧洲人'和'巴尔干人'没有什么本质上的二元对立,就像欧亚大陆的分界线只是多年来的人为习惯和观念而创造出来的一样:它只是历史的巧合和权利、利益的争端下的聚合物,这之中也许掉血最多的受害者反而四面楚歌。"



Februrary 11, 2016

去你的亚洲女性狂热

Published @ Female Leadership Cultivation Association 女权基地

亚裔狂热是许多限制、歧视或偏见的一角,而那些制约都是不正当的。没有哪一种偏见比其他偏见更不正当,因为这些都是限制我们作为人类获取幸福,获得与享受平等待遇的阻路石。


December 13, 2015

我在UWC性别论坛

Published @ Female Leadership Cultivation Association 女权基地

在UWC(世界联合书院)年度性别论坛参与后感受。通过分享个人故事的方式,不为反驳普遍观点,而是为可能被错误、偏狭地描绘的故事带来一些不同的但同样重要的阐释。


September 16, 2015

A Toast to Equality

Published @ Female Leadership Cultivation Association 女权基地

什么是女权主义?为什么它和千万女性、男性、其他性别分类的人类种群整体是息息相关的?为什么我们现在需要去解读它背后的深层社会问题并着手从不同的角度和细节做出力所能及的改变?


As a Debater, I am...

  • The Open Semi Final Judge (top 14 out of all judges) and the highest ranking North American judge in the 40th World University Championships 2020
  • The former Executive Board Member & VP of External Affairs of Stanford Debate Society
  • The Octo-finalist at North American Debating Championships 2019-2020
  • A long-time mentor and coach to Chinese students on debate (2015-Ongoing)
  • Champion, Best Speaker, Breaking 1st, Beihang World Debate Academy 2016 (China)
  • Champion, Grand Final Best Speaker, Hong Kong Parliamentary Debate Society 2015
  • Invited Adjudicator at prominent Chinese National Tournaments at High school and University Level

Here is my comprehensive debate CV.

I am interested in...

  • Education
  • Poverty reduction and equitable development
  • Philosophy
  • Latin Dancing
  • Art, food and designs
  • Kayaking
  • Reading all kinds of newsletters
  • Hosting intellectual salons
  • Becoming a Renaissance woman

while had some eye-opening experiences where I...

  • Spent a summer in North Macedonia in Skopje, the capital city, doing research in EU-Macedonia economic integration as well as treatment of the Roma minority in Macedonia.
  • Hitch-hiked at the Albanian-Macedonian border, when I had an intimate contacts with near-death when the driver drove on the opposite side of the road twice the speed limits for a prolonged period of time.
  • Encountered an unforcasted snowstorm in a kayaking trip I co-lead, and our team had to emergency land.
  • Accidentally stumbled upon social dancing in college, and won the champion in a partner-dance competition when I had limited experience.