Yeoh Repeats as Academic All-America

(AUSTIN, Texas) – Junior Kaylin Yeoh of the national champion Carnegie Mellon University women's golf team was named to the 2024 Academic All-America Women's At-Large Team selected by the College Sports Communicators (CSC). Yeoh found a spot on the first team and repeats as an Academic All-America after landing a spot on the third team a year ago.

Yeoh helped the Tartans to the first NCAA Division III Championship for any women's program in Carnegie Mellon University history this past spring. She was named an All-American by the Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) and ended the year with a scoring average of 75.3 in 17.5 rounds of play and ranked fourth on the Cardinal and Gray. Yeoh recorded her season-low round of one-under par 71 during the third round of the NCAA Division III Championship.

In the classroom, Yeoh carries a 4.00 in information systems. The last two seasons she has been named a WGCA All-America Scholar. She took first place in the 2024 CMU Business Technology Group/Microsoft Product Management Hackathon. Last February, Yeoh was Carnegie Mellon's Deloitte Undergraduate Case Competition Runner-Up. She has worked on various projects including Re-Engineering the Early Stages of YouTube where she developed user stories and conceptual model to address customer pain points, then converted to relational and physical model. She created a video game called PooPoo Valley which is a modified version of Stardew Valley and recreated Pamela's Diner's website.

Yeoh has worked for IBM Accelerate as a Client Engineering & Technical Sales Apprentice where she developed virtual assistant chatbot using IBM Watson to improve customer and staff experience for pseudo-client DTE Bank and led case presentation to IBM leaders in environment meant to simulate technical sales pitch. She has interned with National Institute of Standards and Technology as a machine learning researcher and for DYNE Technologies as a technology associate.