Hsin-ying Lee
Founding Member, LLM Wrangler at illoca
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHsin-ying Lee is a research-driven machine learning engineer and founding member focused on practical LLM applications, building on over a decade of expertise in computer vision and ML and eight years of industry experience. After a PhD from UC Merced and a master's from USC, she spent five years as a research scientist at Snap Inc., translating cutting-edge research into product-ready systems. Now based in California, she helps shape illoca's LLM tooling and workflows, bringing a researcher’s rigor to fast-moving startup constraints. Colleagues describe her as someone who bridges deep theoretical knowledge with pragmatic engineering, and she often leverages cross-disciplinary insights from vision research to improve language model robustness and multimodal integration.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at University of Southern CaliforniaNational Taiwan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of California, Merced
Github Skills (12)
hero4
hierarchical4
video-language3
encoder3
video-understanding2
temporal2
pytorch2
transformers1
extraction1
nlp1
feature-extraction1
question-answering1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Tovo-Bike/Backend
Jan 2019 - Jul 2023
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
tsunghan-mama/MVC
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:33 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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