Summary
Yiyou LIN is a Machine Learning Engineer II based in California with nine years of experience and 5+ years focused on computer vision, NLP, deep learning and production ML. At Microsoft she contributes to the Azure AutoML platform, bringing hands-on model and systems experience from prior roles where she owned end-to-end projects—ranging from smart car insurance vision systems to large-scale content moderation and recommendation pipelines. Comfortable bridging technical research and business impact, she has built scalable services, active-learning data pipelines, and model-driven product features that reduced OCR failures and improved recommendation quality. Trained in Finance and Management Information Systems, she pairs quantitative rigor with product sense to prioritize measurable outcomes. Colleagues describe her as deeply curious about extracting truth from data and adept at turning academic techniques into deployable, socially beneficial technology.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Management Information Systems, 3.56, Master’s Degree, Management Information Systems, 3.56 at Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III College
Bachelor’s Degree, Finance, Accounting and Management, Bachelor’s Degree, Finance, Accounting and Management at Nottingham University Business School
English, Chinese