Scott Yih
Research Scientist at Meta
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Yih is a Research Scientist at Meta AI with nearly a decade of experience advancing natural language processing through roles at Meta, AI2, and Microsoft Research. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UIUC and earlier degrees from National Taiwan University, combining deep academic training with long-term industrial research. Scott’s career blends foundational NLP research and applied projects, moving between senior research roles and short consulting engagements that suggest an ability to translate ideas into product-relevant solutions. Based in Redmond, he is known for sustained contributions to language understanding research within top-tier labs and for bridging academic rigor with pragmatic engineering in large-scale AI teams.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, MS, Computer Science, BS, MS, Computer Science at National Taiwan UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English
Github Skills (28)
columns10
representations10
encoder9
wordnet9
corpus8
passage8
parsing8
linker8
entity8
semantic-parsing7
semantic7
arxiv7
sentence-similarity7
nlp7
utterances6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
scottyih/scottyih.github.io
Dec 2017 - Feb 2022
Contributions:100 pushes in 4 years 2 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
scottyih/Slides
Aug 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:41 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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