Yimin Lin
Software Engineer at Zipline
Carrollton, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolYimin Lin is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in computational mathematics and physics-based simulation for autonomous systems. He holds a PhD in Computational Mathematics from Rice and a BA in Math & CS from UC Berkeley, and has built simulation stacks across industry labs and startups, including Zipline, Aurora, and Toyota Research Institute. His work spans efficient algorithm design and production-grade implementation—from an MPM C++ solver for elasto-plastic materials to spectral element electrochemistry solvers—bringing research-grade numerical methods into validation-ready simulators. Based in Sunnyvale, he blends deep numerical analysis with pragmatic engineering to close the gap between high-fidelity dynamics and real-world autonomy testing, and maintains multiple simulation-focused repositories under his GitHub handle.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Mathematics and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Mathematics at Rice University
Github Skills (18)
simulation10
sem10
spectral10
julia10
conservation-laws9
fluid9
amr9
maxwell9
solver8
drift8
hpc7
epsilon6
entropy4
pde-solver3
react3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
GamesCrafters/GamesmanSpark
Sep 2015 - May 2024
Distributed GamesCrafters solver.
Contributions:2 PRs in 8 years 9 months
solverdistributed
yiminllin/P2DE.jl
Jun 2023 - Nov 2025
Simple PDE solvers in 2D. Only for research and educational purposes.
Contributions:1 review, 26 PRs, 46 pushes in 2 years 5 months
pde-solver
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