Limin Yang
Senior Applied AI Engineer at Microsoft
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLimin Yang is a Senior Applied AI Engineer based in New York with eight years of experience building security-focused ML systems that bridge research and production. With a PhD background and roles at UIUC, Virginia Tech, IBM, ByteDance, and now Microsoft, Limin specializes in bug and vulnerability prediction, threat intelligence, and mining software repositories to surface actionable security signals. He has hands-on impact in production security—improving spam detection and incident response at ByteDance and quantifying SOC alert gaps at IBM using LSTM autoencoders. Comfortable moving between research and engineering, he combines rigorous measurement studies with pragmatic rule- and model-based defenses to reduce real-world risk. Notably, his work often augments scarce labeled data through clustering and semi-automated allowlisting, accelerating threat detection and response.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at East China Normal UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Virginia TechDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (2)
jekyll5
python2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
miaochenlu/exploring
Feb 2023 - May 2023
Contributions:567 pushes in 3 months
miaochenlu/arch_sec_papers
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:24 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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