Bill Yuchen Lin
Scholar

Bill Yuchen Lin

Google Scholar ID: 7hVk87IAAAAJ
Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Natural Language ProcessingMachine LearningLarge Language ModelsAI
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
10,180
 
H-index
46
 
i10-index
72
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
8
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Best Paper Award at TrustNLP 2021; Best Paper Runner-Up at The Web Conference (WWW) 2020; Best Thesis at SJTU.
  • Best Paper Award at CoRL 2024 LangRob Workshop.
  • Named an AI Rising Star by Baidu Scholar.
  • Senior Area Chair for ACL 2025; Area Chair for ICLR 2025, ACL 2023, EMNLP 2023/2024.
  • Organized workshops including FL4NLP@ACL22, CSRR@ACL22, CSKB@AKBC21, TamingLLM@SIGDIAL+INLG'23.
  • Delivered tutorials at ACL 2022/2023 and WSDM 2023.
  • Led or contributed to releases of MagpieLM (4B & 8B), ZeroEval, WildVision datasets (WV-Chat, WV-Battle, WV-Bench), WildBench, PairRM-0.4B, and Vision Arena.
  • Multiple papers accepted at top venues including ACL 2024 and ICLR 2024 (e.g., Agent Lumos, ETO, SafeDecoding, The Unlocking Spell on Base LLMs).
Research Experience
  • Member of Technical Staff, xAI (2024–present).
  • Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of Washington (2024–present).
  • Research Scientist, Allen Institute for AI (Feb 2023–Nov 2024); collaborated with Prof. Yejin Choi.
  • Research Intern, Meta FAIR Lab (May–Dec 2021); hosted by Dr. Scott Yih.
  • Research Intern, Google AI (2019–2020); hosted by Prof. William Cohen and Sandeep Tata.
  • Also interned at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and Microsoft Research Asia.