YIN LI
Profile
Bridging the gap between Theoretical AI and real-world impact. From founding startups to researching medical AI, I build systems that matter.
Currently studying at the University of Birmingham.
- Medical AI
- Generative Models
- Distributed Systems
Work History
- Launched MVP for a recruiting platform augmenting resumes with 30s intro videos.
- Built matching workflows and implemented vector retrieval + RAG-style matching.
- Developed ranking logic for multi-entity search and recommendation.
- Designed emotion-understanding AI treating LLM outputs as learned reactions.
- Engineered compact emotion detector (BERT-base) with +12.1% improvement.
- Built emotion-driven recommendation engine integrated into iOS Swift app.
- Built AI interviewer conducting role-specific practice interviews.
- Redesigned resume–JD matching into interpretable, dimension-wise scoring.
- Optimized evaluation pipeline: +83% faster runtime, -13% cost.
- Fine-tuned lightweight forecasting model (~7M params) for market prediction.
- Achieved 93% accuracy on internal target label.
- Helped launch one-click short-form content system generating 1000 videos/min.
- Optimized generation workflow for speed and consistency.
Selected Work
Lightweight Explainability Framework
A novel framework optimizing Grad-CAM for edge devices with 300x speedup.
Positional Encodings in Transformers
Theoretical analysis of expressiveness, generalization, and extrapolation in PE schemes.
AI for Healthcare
Collaborating with faculty on LLMs in medicine to accelerate cancer detection and reduce labeling costs.
Optimization & 3D Imaging
Investigating multi-objective optimization with gradient-based methods and learning methods for 3D medical imaging.
Medical AI Conference
Delivered keynote on the integration of Large Language Models in clinical workflows and future applications.
Hackathon Winner
Winner of Google AI Hackathon, Microsoft Agentic Hackathon, and Dubai Robots & AI 2025 (Local & Global).
Top 100 Influential Chinese Abroad Youth
Recognized among the Top 100 Most Influential Chinese Youth Abroad by the Global Chinese Youth Conference.
Tech Community Leader
President of Chinese Student Assoc., Founder of Blockchain Society, Tech Lead at GDG, and more.
Academic Tutor
A-Level & GCSE tutor in Computer Science, Math, Further Math, and Physics. Helped students achieve remarkable improvements—from C grades to A* at graduation.
Technical Expertise
Let's Work Together
Have a project in mind or want to collaborate? I'd love to hear from you.