Daniel Son

Software Engineer & ML Researcher | CS + Data Science @ UVA | 2x published (ACL 2025, LREC 2026)

Vienna, Virginia, United States

About

Computer Science + Data Science student at UVA (4.0 GPA) building AI systems, with a focus on machine learning, NLP, and LLM-powered applications. Two-time published researcher (ACL 2025, LREC 2026). Open to software engineering, ML, and data science roles. Reach me at [email protected].

Experience

  • University of Virginia ()
    • Natural Language Processing Research Assistant
      Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

      Research how adversarial benchmarks reveal math-reasoning gaps in language models

    • SpinQuest Lab Research Assistant
      Mar 2025 - Nov 2025 · 9 mos

      Research how sea quarks contribute to proton spin via modelling particle collisions

  • Capital One Tech Summiteer at Capital One
    Jan 2026 - Jan 2026 · 1 mo

  • Poster Presenter at Association for Computational Linguistics
    Aug 2025 - Aug 2025 · 1 mo

    Present paper accepted into ACL SRW 2025 as first author

  • Software Engineer Intern at AMETEK
    May 2025 - Aug 2025 · 4 mos

    Developing cloud-native LLM solutions to streamline IoT data retrieval with Telular

  • Data Science Intern at The Force for Health® Network
    Dec 2024 - May 2025 · 6 mos

    Partnered with the site’s lead engineer to address AI chatbot vulnerabilities, smooth critical UI/UX errors, and boost SEO scores