Summary
Yi-lin Sung is a research scientist focused on multimodal deep learning, parameter-efficient methods, and continual learning, with eight years of experience spanning industry research roles at Google, Meta, and Microsoft. Currently at Google building agents for Workspace, she has a track record of internships and short-term research appointments advancing VLM critics, efficient text-to-image generation, and model merging. She publishes in top AI venues and is completing a PhD in Computer Science at UNC Chapel Hill, bringing strong academic rigor to applied problems. Originally trained in communication engineering and chemical engineering in Taiwan, she combines cross-disciplinary thinking with practical ML engineering to tackle data- and compute-efficient multimodal systems.
8 years of coding experience