Lanny Lin
Vice President Of AI & Engineering at Vivint
Orem, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolLanny Lin is a VP of AI & Engineering with 14+ years building intelligent home-automation and robotics products, currently leading AI and engineering at Vivint. He blends deep academic research in human-robot interaction and autonomy (PhD-level) with hands-on leadership shipping safety, security, and camera-driven smart-home systems at scale. His work spans designing ML models for behavior recognition from large sensor streams to real-time decisioning and human-autonomy interaction that improve energy, safety, and wellbeing. Known internally as a “mad scientist” for ambitious automation ideas, he pairs that inventiveness with practical product delivery and multidisciplinary team leadership. Outside engineering he translates Chinese martial arts and sci‑fi literature and practices soccer and martial arts, reflecting a rare mix of technical rigor and cultural creativity.
14 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BA and BS, Business and Computer Science, BA and BS, Business and Computer Science at Southern Oregon UniversityInternational Trade, International Trade at Xiamen UniversityPhD, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction at Brigham Young University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (5)
solr3
rest2
banana2
restful2
kibana1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
Lannyland/IPPA
Jun 2011 - Oct 2013
Contributions:108 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 3 months
Lannyland/DiffEdit
Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:54 commits in 1 month
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