Scott Yih
Research Scientist at Meta
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Yih is a Research Scientist at Meta AI with nearly a decade of experience advancing natural language processing through roles at Meta, AI2, and Microsoft Research. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UIUC and earlier degrees from National Taiwan University, combining deep academic training with long-term industrial research. Scott’s career blends foundational NLP research and applied projects, moving between senior research roles and short consulting engagements that suggest an ability to translate ideas into product-relevant solutions. Based in Redmond, he is known for sustained contributions to language understanding research within top-tier labs and for bridging academic rigor with pragmatic engineering in large-scale AI teams.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, MS, Computer Science, BS, MS, Computer Science at National Taiwan UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English
Github Skills (23)
encoder9
indexof9
language-model8
parser8
rdf8
utterances8
passage8
linker8
csharp7
wcf7
latex6
arxiv5
bibtex5
semantic-parsing5
machine-learning4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
scottyih/scottyih.github.io
Dec 2017 - Mar 2026
Contributions:106 pushes in 8 years 4 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
scottyih/Slides
Aug 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:41 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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