Yingchen Ma
Applied Scientist II at Microsoft
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYingchen Ma is an Applied Scientist II at Microsoft with a decade of experience bridging research and production in NLP, LLMs, machine learning, and computational social science. With a PhD and MS from Georgia Tech and publications at ACM Web Science, Yingchen led robustness evaluations of multimodal LLMs and built predictive models for social media misinformation with strong empirical performance. Prior internships at Microsoft, Honeywell, and Pioneer translated research into product-facing systems—such as LLM-driven image quality evaluation for Microsoft Designer and automation tooling using FastAPI, Docker, and Kubernetes. Comfortable across the stack, Yingchen combines statistical rigor with pragmatic engineering to ship scalable ML solutions, and was recognized with Georgia Tech’s Marshal D. Williamson Fellowship. An understated strength is pairing causal/statistical analysis with applied ML to surface actionable features for operational systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of MichiganDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (6)
deep-learning2
pytorch2
openmmlab1
object-detection1
computer-vision1
3d-object-detection1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yma17/tdvrptw-snrpga2
Dec 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
yma17/yma17.github.io
Dec 2022 - Jan 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:34 pushes in 2 years 1 month
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
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