Shih-Yao (Mike) Lin

Shih-Yao (Mike) Lin, Ph.D.

Applied AI Scientist | LLM Post-Training · Agentic AI · Multimodal Intelligence

About Me

I’m a Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft CoreAI, working on agentic AI, multi-agent systems, and foundation-model post-training.

Previously, I was a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon, where I developed multimodal large language models and vision-language systems for video understanding, multimodal safety, and efficient reasoning. Earlier, I held research roles at Sony, Tencent America, and Bosch, working on video understanding, human motion, and multimodal perception.

My research focuses on decision-centric multimodal intelligence: building AI systems that can selectively perceive, efficiently reason, and reliably act. My current interests span LLM post-training, agentic AI, multimodal foundation models, and efficient multimodal reasoning.

Mount Rainier — a reminder to keep perspective and aim higher.

News

2026-09: New Microsoft Foundry Blog: “Your Agent Found the Right Schema, Then Ignored It.” — improving schema adherence and reliability in AI agents.
2026-08: New Microsoft Foundry Blog: When Does RL Actually Help Fine-Tuning? — a difficulty-controlled study of SFT vs. reinforcement fine-tuning.
2026-03: Joined Microsoft as a Sr. Applied Scientist

2026-03: One paper accepted by ICPR'26
2026-01-07: One paper was accepted by WACV'26 Workshop
2022-08-08: Join Amazon as an Applied Scientist
2022-04-22: One paper was accepted by IJCAI'22
2021-10-15: One paper was accepted by BMVC'21
2021-09: Join Sony as a Sr. Research Scientist
2020-11-02: Two papers were accepted by WACV'21
2020-07-25: One paper was accepted by ACM Multimedia'20
2019-12-08: Our Artificial intelligence apps for Parkinson's patient evaluation was reported by BBC.
2019-09-16: One paper was accepted by WACV'20 (First Round Early Accepted)
2019-07-01: One paper was accepted by BMVC'19
2019-05-09: We launched our Parkinson’s AI clinical trial in London, UK, and it was reported by Parkinson’s Life
2019-05-06: Our Parkinson’s AI diagnosis program was reported by Financial Times [PDF]
2019-01-21: Our work entitled "A Pilot Study to Evaluate the Severity of Motor Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease Based on AI Video Analysis" has been registered in US NIH-registered Clinical Trial
2018-12-11: Our PD evaluation system was demonstrated at T-Day exhibition and it was reported by Sina and Weixin (Chinese)
2018-12-08: Our AI-Assisted PD motion assessment system was demonstrated at PDMD'18 in Hong Kong and it was reported by Synced and HealthcareWeakly.
2018-10-08: Our Parkinson's patient evaluation and grading system was reported by BBC, Bloomberg, Forbes.
2018-09-03: One paper was accepted by BMVC'18

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