Shih-Yao (Mike) Lin

About Me

Hi, I’m currently a Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft (CoreAI), where I work on multi-agent system (MAS).

Previously, I was a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon (2022–2026), where I developed multimodal LLMs and vision-language models for decision-centric tasks such as action prediction, captioning, and multimodal safety—focusing on scalable systems that reason and act over video.

Earlier, I was a Senior Research Scientist at Sony (2021–2022), where I developed real-time 3D character motion systems for interactive environments. I worked at Tencent America as a Sr. Researcher, and worked on human pose estimation and motion understanding, and Earlier in my career, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Bosch (2017–2018), focusing on sensor-driven 3D hand gesture recognition.

My research centers on decision-centric multimodal intelligence—building systems that selectively perceive, efficiently reason, and reliably act. I aim to bridge foundation models with real-world interaction to enable scalable, grounded AI agents.

Photo: Mount Rainier — a reflection of navigating complexity and aiming higher.

News

2026-03: Joined Microsoft as a Sr. Applied Scientist
2026-01-07: One paper was accepted by WACV'26 Workshop

2023-06-02: One paper was accepted by IJCAI'23 Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Learning (STRL)
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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