Yinlin Chen, Ph.D.

Assistant Director & Assistant Professor
Center for Digital Research & Scholarship


I am passionate about researching and creating cloud-based applications (AWS and GCP) using cloud-native, microservice, and serverless architectures, along with advanced machine learning techniques, various programming languages, and open-source tools. My research interests include Digital Libraries, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Cloud Computing, Natural Language Processing, and Information Retrieval.

News Conferences / Travels
  • AWS Academy Educator, January, 2023
  • AWS Learning: Serverless, January, 2023
  • AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty, December, 2022
  • TensorFlow Developer Certificate, October, 2022
  • AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty, October, 2022
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  • Code4Lib 2023, MAR. 12-14, 2023
  • Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2022, JUNE. 20 – 24, 2022
  • Open Repositories 2022, JUNE. 6-9, 2022
  • AWS DC Submmit 2022, MAY. 23-25, 2022
  • KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2021, OCT. 11 - 15, 2021
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Contact Schedule
    Office: Newman Library
    Email: ylchen@vt.edu
    Phone: 540-231-0271