Yibin Lin
**** ***** ******* *******, **** Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
******@**.***.*** http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~yibinl/
OBJECTIVE
A challenging full-time position in IT related field, utilizing my knowledge in software development, natural
language processing and data processing.
SKILLS
Programming Languages: Java(Strong), SQL(Strong), Python(Fluent), PHP(Fluent), C, JavaScript, LaTEX;
Tools and Paradigms: Stanford CoreNLP, Statistical Language Modeling, Ajax, UNIX/Linux
Selected Courses: Computational Linguistics, Educational Psychology, Computer System Security,
Language and Statistics, Algorithms for NLP, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Operating
System, Computer Graphics * Fall 2012 Semester
Natural Language Processing, jQuery, script language, css. Flash, computer architecture, algorithm, JDBC,
EDUCATION
08/2011 08/2013(expected)
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
M.S. in Language Technologies, School of Computer Science
08/2008 05/2011
State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY
B.S. (Honors) summa cum laude in Computer Science
2011 Academic Excellence Award in Computer Science, SUNY Stony Brook (awarded to only one
graduate based on academic excellence and faculty nomination in each department)
GPA for CS major courses: 4.0/4.0
08/2007 07/2008
University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, P.R.C.
WORK EXPERIENCE
08/2011 present
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
Graduate Research Assistant in Language Technologies Institute
Designed and implemented in vivo classroom study to measure accurately the impact of translation on
vocabulary acquisition for adult English as a Second Language (ESL) students
Applied expertise in various language technologies: stemming, language modeling, morphology analyzer
02/2010 05/2010
J. P. Morgan Asset Management New York, NY
IT Technology Intern
Proposed and developed a real-time counterparty data reporting system that directly connects to the
backend database, using HTML, PHP and flash charts as visualization tools
Proposed a wrapper that combines different existing data sources (Sybase, MySQL, Oracle) across
different major offices in North America and Europe into a new Oracle database
07/2009 05/2010
Glass Capital Research, Inc. St. James, NY
Research Intern
Implemented a multi-threaded information extraction system utilizing regular expressions and Java
Refined this regular expression-based natural language processing system for tagging financial news titles
(e.g: sales up, acquisition) and increasing recall value by 200%
Proposed dynamic time-weighted averaging function to predict stock price and volatility behaviors based
on the output of the information extraction system.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITY
06/2010 05/2011
Senior Honors Research advisor: Prof. Jennifer Wong SUNY Stony Brook
Actively research on Android SDK
Proposed and implemented a new algorithm to use multiple sensors such as accelerometers and Wi -Fi
adaptors in smart phones to infer user status (busy or idle)
03/2010 11/2010
3rd place in Student Cluster Competition, SC 10 New Orleans, LA
Analyzed computational bottlenecks (CPU, I/O, etc) of designated parallel computing application
Tested different compiler and compilation flags to build more efficient parallel computing applications