Yi-ling Chen
Member Of Technical Staff at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYi-ling Chen is a seasoned research software engineer with 11 years of experience bridging computer graphics, vision, and human-computer interaction, now driving vision foundation models and multimodal LLMs at Microsoft from Redmond. She has advanced large-scale learning through innovative pseudo-labeling and synthetic data pipelines, contributing to projects such as Florence and Phi-3-Vision. Her background spans academia and industry—PhD-trained research stints and postdocs at National Taiwan University and UC Davis—giving her a strong foundation in both theoretical methods and practical systems. Early work in interactive visualization, photograpic aesthetics modeling, and cloud-based video analytics shows a consistent pattern of turning research prototypes into deployable technology. Colleagues value her ability to translate cross-disciplinary research into production-quality AI components that scale.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University
English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
gpu10
python10
numpy9
autograd9
tensorflow9
gpu-acceleration9
neural-network9
tensor9
acceleration9
efficientnet2
visual-recognition2
pytorch1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yiling-chen/flickr-cropping-dataset
Jan 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:65 commits, 60 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
yiling-chen/view-finding-network
Feb 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 7 pushes, 7 comments in 4 years 10 months
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