Xin Lei Lin

- Core ML

- Advisor: Professor Michael Brudno - Generating facial meshes for controllable action unit generation with 3DGS

- Advisor: Prof. Babak Taati, funded by KITE (UHN) and Vector Institute - Pain in 3D: Generating Controllable Synthetic Faces for Automated Pain Assessment. ❗Pain in 3D was accepted at ICPR 2026 in Lyon, France❗

- Export to S3 team @AWS RDS - Completed a Software Development Engineer Internship where I optimized parallel export to S3 with EMR, Hadoop Spark, and EKS, saving ~$8M/year.

- Advisor: Professor Pascal Tyrrell at MiDATA UofT - ❗MedSegGen was accepted at the RSNA Radiology Conference 2025 in Chicago❗🥳 - Developing MedSegGen, a mask-conditioned Latent Diffusion pipeline for low-label medical segmentation datasets.

- Working as a Machine Learning Engineer developing RsonArt, a history-aware artist agent with RAG; scraped 300k artists into a pgvector DB.

• Awards: Top 10 of 500+ teams globally & Winner of Best Model at the IGEM 2024. • Fine-tuned Evo (a Striped-Hyena genome model) to generate plasmid sequences with antibacterial resistance.

- Advisor: Professor Houari Sahraoui at DIRO (University of Montreal) • Represented Team Canada (top 12 nationals) at ISEF 2023 in Dallas, Texas (10 awards, $15k+ in total). • Trained and compared four models (CNNs & LSTMs) for American Sign Language to English translation.

Le Manifeste (French Newspaper): - Editor-in-chief, worked with a team of 20 writers, layout artists -- combined four editions w/ 80 pages of content The Last Word (English Newspaper): - Editor-in-chief, more than 160 pages of content, in 2 editions, alongside 20 writers and artists Yearbook: - Created, along a team of more than 10 artists, photographs, and writers, a memorable 136 page long yearbook

- Reelected 4 years in a row as class president

- Developed HauteTechOrientale's frontend infrastructure with HTML, CSS and Bootstrap

Camp counselor for neurodivergent children

Scholarships and Awards: - 20000$ C. David Naylor Scholarship (1 of 6 scholarships) for a domestic student with 95%+ entering average, who has demonstrated leadership in the arts, sports and/or volunteerism - 7500$ Arts and Science Scholar for students who have demonstrated outstanding academic achivements - 500$ 6T3 Trinity College Scholarship for High Academic Achievement - (deferred) UWaterloo President’s Entrance scholarship for Software Engineering ($2000) Hackathons and Competitions: - UTMIST RNA Folding team - Cross-disciplinary award at CUCAI & Impact award UTMIST student showcase - IGEM 2024 - Top 10 of 500 +teams & Best model worldwide - MakeUofT - Qualcomm Second, and Flow Prize ($1200) - UofTHacks - Cohere First Prize ($1500) - HackTheNorth - Finalist Project - UTRAHacks - Flow and Starknet Prize ($1000) - ConUHacks VII - Offered Interview at National Bank

Awards and Other: Informatics: - Top 25% at the Canadian Computing Contest - Senior Division Science Fair (ISEF): - Participation to the International Science and Engineering Fair, in Dallas, Texas (all included) - ($750 x 2) Hydro Québec FIRST PRIZE – best overall project of the Montreal Science Fair - ($1000) Prize of the Minister of Economy, Innovation and Energy - ($1000) Winner of the Student OCTAS Réseau Action TI Prize for College Students in IT - Gold Medal (Collegial) with Highest distinction at the Montreal Science Fair - (250$) Bronze Medal (Collegial) at the Super (Provincial) Expo-sciences - (300$) Gina school of Engineering and Computer Science [Award for Outstanding achievement in Computer Science and Software] - (150$) Réseau ACTION TI-Youth Award in Information Technology (Collegial) - Francis-Boulva Prize, Prize for reaching the Super Expo-sciences 3 years in a row. - Wolfram Alpha Prize for ISEF participants

Other Scholarships and Awards: - Distinction Brébeuf (4 times) - First place in French writing contest (2022) - Second place in English Writing Contest (2022) - Leadership Scholarship (2022) - Historical Documentary Production Winner (2021) Math: - AMQ top 25 in the province - And Numerous contests... Science Fair: - 750$ - IEEE Eloi Ngandui Prize for the best project in Informatics (Super Expo-sciences 2021) - 100$ - Montreal Congress Palace Prize (Exposciences 2021) - Antidote Prize for French Quality (Super Exposciences 2022) - Echappe-Toi prize (Exposciences 2021) Accumulated Méritas (for best grade and effort - more than one per subject): - French (4 awards) - English (2 awards) - Physical Education (3 awards) - Math (1 award) - Science (1 award) - Monde contemporain et éducation financière (1 award) - Ethics and Religion (1 award) - Spanish (1 award)