Summary
Yuyin Sun is a Principal Applied Scientist based in Seattle with a PhD in computer vision, machine learning, and robotics and over a decade of experience translating research into production robotics systems. She has progressed through technical and leadership roles at Amazon Lab126 and Amazon Go, focusing on robot manipulation and applied ML across product-grade devices. Her career blends deep academic training from the University of Washington with hands-on system delivery, from prototyping to leading cross-functional teams in Bellevue. Known for bridging theory and practice, she brings expertise in perception-driven manipulation and a track record of shipping deployed solutions in consumer robotics. Quietly, she pairs rigorous research instincts with product-minded pragmatism, often favoring elegant, data-driven simplifications that make complex robotic behaviors robust in the wild.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Robotics, PhD Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Robotics at University of Washington
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science Machine Learning, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science Machine Learning at Nanjing University