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AI engineer · medical foundation-model researcher

Shuolin
(Leo) Yin

Toronto, Canada 43.6532° N · 79.3832° W

I build intelligent systems from research question to dependable product—across foundation models, multimodal AI, and autonomous agents.

Experience
01

Experience

Research depth.
Product velocity.

May 2025 – Present

Research Assistant

Vector Institute & University Health Network — WangLab

Toronto, ON

Mar 2025 – Jan 2026

Lead ML & Full-Stack Engineer

Medical3.ai

Toronto, ON

May 2025 – Aug 2025

AI & Full-Stack Engineer, Founding Team

Lumi AI

San Francisco Bay Area (Hybrid)

Feb 2024 – Sep 2024

AI Research Assistant

Chinese Academy of Sciences — Institute of Automation

Beijing, China

Jun 2022 – Sep 2024

President / Founder

VolunTrack Org.

Toronto, ON
02

Research

Clinical signal,
measured carefully.

01

First Author · 2025

From Concept to Code: A General Framework for Building a Medical Vision-Language Model

MICCAI Educational ChallengeTop 5
02

First Author · 2026

Autonomous Discovery of Multiple Instance Learning Architectures by Language Model Agents

Nature Biomedical EngineeringIn Preparation
03

First Author · 2026

Adapting Pathology Foundation Models for Prediction of Homologous Recombination Deficiency Status in High-Grade Serous Carcinomas Using Whole-Slide Images

International Journal of Gynecological CancerIn Preparation
04

Co-author · 2026

Self-Configuring Multi-Task Learning for Joint 3D Biomedical Image Segmentation and Classification

Medical Image AnalysisUnder Review
05

Co-author · 2026

Benchmarking and Adapting On-Device Large Language Models for Clinical Decision Support

Nature CommunicationsUnder Review
06

Presenter · 2025

Pathology-Native Self-Supervision at Scale: DINOv3 for Cancer Foundation Models

NeurIPS SLCPFM CompetitionPresented
07

Organizer · 2025

FLARE — Fast, Low-resource, Accurate, Robust, and Effectual Medical Image Analysis Challenge

MICCAIOrganizer
03

Writing

Notes from
the work.

01

August 14, 2026 · 14 min read

Building a room that behaves like an interface

A practical Blender-to-Three.js workflow for turning a composed 3D scene into a precise, expressive, and genuinely interactive website.

  • Blender
  • Three.js
  • Interaction design
02

August 12, 2026 · 8 min read

The half-life of an agent skill

The skills that patch today’s model weaknesses decay. The ones that carry context no model could know become durable infrastructure.

  • Agent skills
  • LLMs
  • Context engineering
04

Selected work

Systems built for
the real world.

01

Lead Engineer · Mar 2025

Echo – AI-Powered Sustainable Fashion Marketplace

Won 1st place in Canada and 2nd globally at BCG & Global Spark Hack the Globe, building an AI marketplace inside a 48-hour window.

  • React Native
  • YOLOv11
  • RAG / LangChain
  • GCP Cloud Run
02

AI & Full Stack Engineer · Apr 2024 – Jun 2024

EZ-Career – Autonomous AI Job Application Agent

Designed a multi-agent system on the OpenAI Agents SDK using an Agent-as-Tool architecture to orchestrate end-to-end job-application automation.

  • OpenAI Agents SDK
  • MCP
  • RAG
  • Supabase
03

Project Lead / Co-Founder · Jun 2023 – May 2024

YiXing – AI-Driven Personalized Travel Planner

Led development of an AI travel planner using fine-tuned GPT models with LangChain-powered RAG for personalized itineraries.

  • React Native
  • LangChain
  • AWS Lambda
  • GPT Fine-tuning
04

Project Lead · Sep 2024

ReassurED – LLM-Powered Emergency Care Navigator

Led a 24-hour hackathon build of a cross-platform emergency healthcare app using React Native (Expo) with real-time Firestore hospital data.

  • React Native
  • FastAPI
  • Few-shot Learning
  • Deepseek-v3