# Yilin G.

> Staff Research Engineer at Google Deepmind

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yiling

## Work Experience
### Staff Research Engineer @ Google DeepMind
Jan 2024 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Tech lead for Imagen data, Gemini Image Generation data

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States
Software engineer with outstanding technical, leadership, communication and collaboration skills.

2022-now: working on the Research Perception infrastructure team.

* Accelerate the release and development of new video content annotation models (used by YouTube, Google Search, Google Photos, etc).
* Owner of a server-side service that runs various computer vision models to accelerate video human-rating tasks. 
* Owner of a service that facilitates human-rating question management (question tracking, question grouping, question dedupping, question enqueuing, payload storage, answer retrieving, etc).
* Upgraded the internal demo website for Google text-to-image generation models to a production-scale backend.
* Obtained C++ readability.

2018-2022: worked on a Google wide exception monitoring and analysis tool.

* The tool is used by >75% Google engineering projects.
* Work with Java, Angular TypeScript, Spanner, PubSub, Flume, Streaming Flume and some other Google internal technologies.
* Design, implement, launch and maintain new features for the project. 
* Collaborate with partner teams and users for tasks involving multiple teams.
* Mentor new team members and interns.
* Obtained Java and TypeScript readability.

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Duke University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Teaching Assistant for Compsci 216 Everything Data Spring 2018
* Prepared homework and lab questions
* Answered student questions during lab sessions and office hours
* Graded homework

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Duke University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
TA for Compsci 516 Database Systems Fall 2017, under the guidance of Professor Sudeepa Roy
* Prepared homework questions and answers for students
* Graded homework and exams
* Answered student questions during office hours and on Piazza
Received highly positive feedbacks from the professor and students about my work.

### Software Developer Intern @ Datasense Analytics
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater San Diego Area
* Used the Latent Semantic Analysis model and the Gensim Python library to add a feature to compare question similarity for the Pluto Question Answering function.
* Delivered a presentation on the development and methodology of Natural Language Processing.
* Independently developed a new feature for Pluto: to allow multiple users to edit the same code document simultaneously and see changes made by others instantly. The development is based on Node.JS,  with React as the front-end framework, Hapi as the back-end framework, and socket.io as the real-time communication framework.


## Education
### Master of Science in Economics and Computer Science
Duke University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Finance & Banking
Zhejiang University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yilin-gao

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Last updated: 2026-03-22