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Archive · Catalogued MMXXVI

Build what people can trust.

Product Manager · Applied AI · FinTech · Web3
Valarie Yang

Product Manager · Applied AI · FinTech · Web3
Data-intensive workflows · Human-in-the-loop AI
Open to international product opportunities

I turn complex data and institutional constraints into usable product workflows—from regulated financial reporting and on-chain systems to teacher-in-the-loop AI prototypes. This portfolio shows what I owned, what is demonstrable, and what still needs validation.

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Applied AI prototypes

Built to make the workflow inspectable · outcomes not yet validated
Assignment requirements become a teacher-approved rubric, then criterion-linked AI suggestions for teacher review and final confirmation.
Local AI bridge required · prototype

AI Assignment Grading Assistant

Turns assignment requirements into a draft rubric for teacher review and locking. AI then prepares criterion-linked preliminary scoring; the teacher reviews, edits, and confirms the final grade. When enabled, submission text, assignment name, and rubric pass through a local bridge to the configured model provider; this is not a hosted grader.

API cost: author-reported small-scale DeepSeek test mean ~CNY 0.2 per assignment. Scope is not standardized; actual costs vary; not a quote, benchmark, or guarantee.

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A teacher selects an authorized teaching image, generates a candidate question, reviews it, and saves it to the current browser's local question bank.
Teacher-side prototype · separate student page

Muzhi Livestock Teaching Assistant

Turns an original or authorized teaching-case image, with an optional learning focus, into an editable question draft. The image and prompt/context are sent to the configured DeepSeek API. A teacher checks the question, answer, and explanation before saving to the current browser's local question bank, which is not connected to the separate student practice page.

API cost: author-reported small-scale test mean ≤ CNY 0.10 per question for image recognition + generation. Scope is not standardized; actual costs vary; not a quote, benchmark, or guarantee; teacher review is excluded.

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Both problem statements are product hypotheses, not conclusions from user interviews. Accuracy, teacher time savings, classroom adoption, and learning outcomes have not been validated. The livestock prototype is for teaching practice—not animal diagnosis or treatment guidance.

Seven-stage product loop: hypothesis, task definition, MVP, vibe-coded build, human and AI testing, safe deployment, and feedback validation back to the hypothesis.

By the numbers

Fig. 01 · Aggregate
20
Catalogued Works
3
Provincial Platforms (2022)
7
Papers & Monographs
99.7
Teaching Eval (top 5%)

Selected outcomes

Priority view · achievements first

Index of career stages

Filed in narrative order

    Recurring threads

    Themes across time
    № 01

    Human–AI Reliance

    How trust in AI forms, how explanation mediates it, and how control must follow before governance can close the loop.

    № 02

    Financial Systems

    From N-PORT regulatory reporting to on-chain settlement — making the movement of value legible, auditable, and trustworthy.

    № 03

    Knowledge & Pedagogy

    From 100+ supervised theses to AI grading systems — teaching as the design of systems that externalise judgement for non-technical decision-makers.

    № 04

    Explanation & Control

    The grammar that connects a philosopher's question to a product manager's edge case.

    Research questions

    Four themes · one loop

    The doctoral programme traces a single recursive structure — reliance → explanation → control → governance — the same loop a product manager closes one edge case at a time.

    № 01

    Human–AI Decision Making

    algorithmic advice · reliance · prediction error · calibrated trust · uncertainty
    How do people update decisions when algorithmic advice conflicts with experience?
    № 02

    AI Governance

    accountability · transparency · oversight · governance
    What does meaningful human oversight require, once reliance has already formed?
    № 03

    Sociotechnical Systems

    institutions · organizations · adoption · expertise · authority
    How do technological systems and institutions co-produce judgement?
    № 04

    Philosophy of Technology

    agency · mediation · responsibility · human judgment
    How do technological systems mediate judgement and agency?

    Now / Next

    Current focus
    Now
    2026
    Exploring
    Human–AI decision making, AI governance, computational social science.
    Teaching
    AI, big data, and data visualization at Dianchi College.
    Building
    AI assignment grading system · livestock vet teaching agent · TypeWords vocabulary app.
    Writing
    Two working manuscripts on green knowledge networks and digital technology risk.
    Next
    2027 →
    PhD research
    ↓Publications
    ↓Research collaborations
    ↓Talks
    ↓Products
    ↓Books / long-form writing

    The outcomes catalogue

    Twenty catalogued works — seventeen completed or published across industry, research, teaching, and building; three in active development. Filter by thread, or follow any entry to its full record.

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    About Valarie

    Human identity
    V·Y
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    A practitioner-researcher

    Working at the intersection of AI, decision-making, technology, and institutions. The trajectory bends from a language and cross-cultural background into information systems, financial systems, government digital systems, AI/Data, teaching, and now research.

    Humanities → Information Systems → Financial Systems
    → Digital Government → AI / Data → Product
    → Human-AI Decision Making → AI Governance / Philosophy of Technology

    Practice

    From N-PORT regulatory reporting at State Street to three provincial big-data platforms under "Digital Yunnan," from on-chain trading systems at NX Lab to AI grading systems in development — practice has always been about making decision-grade data legible and trustworthy.

    Research

    The doctoral programme traces a single recursive structure: human–AI reliance → explanation → control → governance. Four themes organise the work: Human–AI Decision Making, AI Governance, Sociotechnical Systems, and Philosophy of Technology.

    Methods

    Computational social science meets philosophical analysis. Product management meets field research. The methods are hybrid because the questions sit between disciplines — between a philosopher's question and a product manager's edge case.

    Direction

    Applying to doctoral programs in Philosophy of Technology / Science & Technology Studies (STS). The goal is not to leave practice behind, but to give it a longer arc — from closing one edge case at a time to understanding the grammar that connects them all.

    Curriculum vitae

    Selected milestones & outputs
    04 / Milestones · Education & Positions
    05 / Selected Outputs · Papers · Monographs · Patent · Project
      Contact
      Valarie Yang
      Lecturer, Dianchi College · PhD Applicant, Philosophy of Technology / STS
      Kunming, China
      valarieyoung2121@gmail.com
      FinTech · Web3 · AI/Data · Philosophy of Technology