Yi Lin Chen

AI Fellow

Insight Data Science, San Francisco, CA, USA

06/2018-present

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- Working with a start-up company, Tolstoy, to deal with the OCR problem in Computer Vision

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-  Leveraged AWS to train VGG-16 for text/non-text classification and CRNN for text recognition by 
using Tensorflow. 

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-  Improved 20% string similarity by applying layout analysis for Google Cloud Vision API

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R&D Intern

JD.com, Mountain View, CA, USA

05/2018-08/2018

 

- Researched and developed benchmarks on deep learning frameworks (Caffe2, MACE, NCNN).

 

- Optimized a real-time human segmentation application on Android (reduced from 130ms/frame to 55ms/frame).

 

 

GIS Engineer

Garmin, Taiwan

01/2017-07/2017

 

- Researched and developed an automatic Point of Interest extraction by machine learning with accuracy 97%.

 

- Dealt with Name Entity Recognition problem in Natural Language Processing to extract Chinese store names in articles.

 

Research Intern

Intel Lab, Intel, Taiwan

01/2015-09/2015

 

- Algorithm researches on the indoor localization technique, including Conditional Random Fields, Hidden Markov Model, Particle Filter, and Wi-Fi fingerprint.

 

- Developed the first general collaborative model for grid-based localization techniques.

 

Software Engineer

Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan

08/2014-02/2015

 

- Built the temperature monitoring system on the embedded platform (8051 MCU) by C/C++

 

- Developed an Android APP that can query the data from the platform through BLE.

 

Game Development Engineer

EconDevPros Software Ltd., Taiwan

01/2014-07/2014

 

- Used C# and Unity game engine to develop a 2.5D farming game on the Android platform.

 

- Handled the objects’ movements, UI development, and Facebook account login feature.