Tim Yin
Software Engineer at Facebook Reality Lab
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Yin is a software engineer with nine years of industry experience and a deep academic foundation in computer science and mathematics, holding a PhD from SUNY Stony Brook and a BS from Peking University. He specializes in geometry- and topology-based algorithm design, with 40+ publications and 10+ patents that have been licensed and awarded, spanning ML, computer vision, autonomous systems, and medical imaging. Tim has translated research into products across academia, industrial labs, large tech (Facebook Reality Labs), and startups, delivering prototypes, MVPs, and commercial systems. Known as a high-impact individual contributor and cross-team leader, he combines theoretical rigor with practical engineering—an attribute reflected in roles from Bell Labs and Harvard to MathWorks and Futurewei. Based in Cambridge, MA, he brings a rare mix of formal mathematical insight and hands-on software delivery that accelerates commercialization of advanced geometric research.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Peking UniversityPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at State University of New York at Stony Brook
Github Skills (9)
e2e-test7
protractor7
testing5
angular5
selenium5
javascript5
test-framework4
webdriver4
e2e3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yimothy/unbeatableTicTacToe
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:66 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
yimothy/stagedive
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:105 pushes, 65 branches in 1 month
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