Tsung-yu Lin
AI Research Scientist at Facebook AI
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTsung-yu Lin is an AI research scientist at Meta AI with a decade of experience specializing in computer vision and multimodal large language models. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from UMass Amherst and progressed from graduate research and internships at Academia Sinica, AWS, and Facebook to his current research role. His work blends deep academic rigor with applied research, focusing on bridging visual understanding and language in large-scale systems. Having worked inside both industrial labs and academic settings, he brings a practical mindset for turning novel ideas into scalable models. Based in the New York City area, he is comfortable navigating cross-disciplinary teams and production-oriented research pipelines. A less obvious strength is his long-standing commitment to research continuity—transitioning smoothly from early research assistant roles through to leading work at a major AI lab.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts AmherstBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
dialog9
pooling8
convolutional-neural-networks8
robust8
facebook7
multiclass-classification7
pytorch6
multimodal6
deep-learning6
modular5
computer-vision5
matlab4
neural-network3
matconvnet2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kcyu2014/bcnn_kyu
Aug 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:56 commits in 1 year 6 months
cvl-umass/bilinear-cnn
Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
Bilinear pooling with convolutional neural networks
Contributions:50 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
bilineardeep-learningpoolingconvolutionalneural-networks
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