Shih-Yao (Mike) Lin  

Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Prime Video

mikeslin[at]amazon.com

About Me

Shih-Yao (Mike) Lin is a Sr. applied scientist at Amazon Prime Video, focusing on multimodal-LLM personalized recommendation system. Prior to this role, he worked on the project of LLM/LVLM foundation model pre-training at Alexa AI. From October 2021 to July 2022, he worked at Sony as a Sr. research scientist, focusing on 3D character motion generation for games. From April 2018 to August 2021, he worked at Tencent America as a senior researcher, specializing in human pose estimation and motion analysis. he also served as a postdoctoral researcher at Bosch from May 2017 to March 2018, contributing to projects of sensor-based 3D hand gesture detection.

His research interests lie at the intersection of multimodal-LLM and computer vision.


The profile photo was taken at Bear Lake, Colorado. 

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