Xiaofan Lin
Senior Applied Scientist at A9.com/Amazon
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiaofan Lin is a Senior Applied Scientist in Palo Alto with 11+ years of experience building production-grade ML and computer vision systems, currently driving visual product search and multimodal ranking at Amazon. He combines hands-on prototyping with team leadership across the full technology lifecycle—from research and patenting to productization—and holds 50+ granted patents and 50+ refereed publications. His background spans pioneering roles in content-based image retrieval and multimedia fingerprinting (Like.com, Vobile) as well as robust OCR and document-analysis systems (HP Labs, Caere), giving him rare depth across vision, audio, text, and information fusion. Colleagues rely on him to translate cutting-edge models and LLMs into scalable search and retrieval products, and he brings a persistent experimental curiosity—summed up by his Github motto “keep hungry, keep foolish”—to practical, impact-driven innovation.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electronic Engineering, BS, Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (13)
spring-session10
thymeleaf10
spring9
spring-boot9
redis9
spring-security8
guava8
hexo6
java6
jsp5
springframework2
apache2
rocketmq1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
happyxiaofan/happyxiaofan.github.io
Jul 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:316 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
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