Yifan Hou is currently a student at UC San Diego. Hou has gained professional experience in the technology sector, serving as a Software Development Engineer (SDE) at Amazon. Prior to this, Hou completed a Software Dev Engineer Internship at Amazon.

Further experience includes a Product Manager Internship at Talkingdata (北京腾云天下科技有限公司), contributing to product development within the technology industry.