experience

General Information

Full Name Yingchen Yu

Education

  • 2020-2023
    Ph.D. Candidate in computer science

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    • Supervised by Assoc. Prof. Shijian Lu
    • Alibaba-NTU Industrial Post-Graduate Program (IPP)
  • 2016-2017
    Master in Computing (Computer Science Specialization)

    National University of Singapore, Singapore

  • 2011-2015
    Bachelor of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    • First Class Honors
    • Dean’s List(2013/2014; 2012/2013; 2011/2012)

Experience

  • 2026 - Present
    Researcher

    Tencent Hunyuan

  • 2023 - 2026
    Research Scientist

    TikTok Pte. Ltd.

    • Built a multimodal agent that coordinates video, speech, and text-editing tools for automated content creation.
    • Developed a production MLLM for ad understanding, achieving 30+ QPS and over 98% accuracy.
    • Mentored AIGC research contributing to 7 publications, 2 ongoing submissions, and 9 patents.
  • 2018 - 2020
    Research Engineer

    Hanalytics Pte Ltd

    • Researched and developed AI applications for brain diagnosis using medical images
    • Participated and led a brain hematoma expansion prediction project, including designing pipelines for data collection and annotation
    • Designed and built deep learning models for hematoma segmentation and expansion prediction; Achieved 90% dice score for segmentation and 75 % accuracy of hematoma expansion prediction
  • 2015-2017
    Product Engineer

    Micron Semiconductor Asia Pte Ltd

    • Performed electrical failure analysis on different yield issues
    • Identified design marginalities and recommend design fix for circuit-related problems

Honors and Awards

  • 2015
    • NTU Undergraduate Motorola Book Prize
  • 2013
    • NTU President Research Scholar for Undergraduate Research Experience on CAmpus (URECA)
  • 2010
    • Singapore MOE Senior Middle School (SM3) Scholarship

Academic Service

  • Conference & Journal Reviewer
    • CVPR 2022, 2023; ECCV 2022; ICCV 2023; ACM MM 2023
    • TCSVT, Neurocomputing

Teaching Experience

  • Teaching Assistant
    • CZ2003 Computer Graphics \& Visualisation
    • CZ2004 Human Computer Interaction
    • CZ3004 Multi Disciplinary Project