Yinlin Chen, Ph.D.

Yinlin Chen, Ph.D.

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Yinlin Chen, Ph.D.

Associate Director & Associate Professor
Center for Digital Research & Scholarship

   

Biography: Dr. Yinlin Chen earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Application from Virginia Tech. His research interests include Digital Libraries, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Cloud Computing, Natural Language Processing, and Information Retrieval. Passionate about cloud-based applications using AWS and GCP, Dr. Chen has taught Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Database Management Systems courses. He has served on program committees and reviewers for conferences such as CIKM, SIGIR, JCDL, iPRES, ICADL, TPDL, and DLF Forum. Additionally, he has been a Fedora Repository committer.

2026 - present - Associate Director, Center for Digital Research & Scholarship, University Libraries, Virginia Tech
2025 - present - Associate Professor, University Libraries, Virginia Tech
2023 - present - Affiliate Faculty, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
2022 - 2026 - Assistant Director, Center for Digital Research & Scholarship, University Libraries, Virginia Tech
2020 - 2025 - Assistant Professor, University Libraries, Virginia Tech
2020 - 2024 - Instructor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
2019 - 2022 - Digital Library Architect, University Libraries, Virginia Tech
2014 - 2019 - Software Engineer, University Libraries, Virginia Tech

I am seeking self-motivated undergraduates, master's, and Ph.D. students to join me in cooperative and interdisciplinary research projects. Our areas of focus include AI, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and large language models. If you are interested in working with me, please feel free to contact me.

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