CV

Basics

Name Lin Ai
Affiliation Columbia University in the City of New York
Position Ph.D. Candidate
Email lin.ai@cs.columbia.edu
Url https://lynneeai.github.io/

Education

  • 2020.09 - present

    New York, USA

    Ph.D.
    Columbia University in the City of New York
    Natural Language Processing
  • 2018.09 - 2020.02

    New York, USA

    M.Sc.
    Columbia University in the City of New York
    Machine Learning
  • 2016.02 - 2016.07

    Lausanne, Switzerland

    Exchange
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
    Computer Science
  • 2013.09 - 2018.04

    Waterloo, Canada

    B.Math
    University of Waterloo
    Computer Science, Statistics, Actuarial Science

Research experience

  • 2020.09 - present
    Ph.D. Candidate
    SpeechLab, Columbia University
    Advised by Prof. Julia Hirschberg
    • Led multiple DARPA and AFOSR-funded projects on information disorder, including misinformation detection, malicious intent identification, radicalization analysis, and cyberattack defense.
    • Advanced LLM safety and integrity by improving LLM generation and addressing misuse.
  • 2018.09 - 2020.02
    Graduate Research Assistant
    SpeechLab, Columbia University
    Advised by Prof. Julia Hirschberg
    • Contributed to multiple DARPA-funded multimodal paralinguistic projects, including sentiment and humor detection in videos, speech emotion conversion, and speech accent conversion.
  • 2017.05 - 2018.04
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    University of Waterloo
    Advised by Prof. Pascal Poupart
    • Designed and implemented an RNN-based chatbot with efficient chat history retrieval.
    • Developed emotion and stress detection models using time-series data from wearable devices.

Teaching

Entrepreneurial experience

  • 2023.07 - present
    Chief AI Lead
    Have You Met (Startup)
    • Leading the AI/ML development for an LLM-powered next-generation dating app, driving innovation and preparing for product launch in October 2024.

Languages

English
Bilingual Proficiency
Manadarin
Native Speaker
Japanese
Elementary Proficiency

Interests

Bartending and Mixology