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Shawn Yin

Shawn Yin

AI Researcher & Master's Student

Hi there! I’m a Master’s student 👨‍🎓 in Computer Science at NYU Courant, specializing in Artificial Intelligence 🤖. Prior to this, I earned my Master’s in Financial Engineering 📈 from NYU Tandon. I have industry experience as a Software Engineer and Big Data Engineer 💻. Currently, my passion lies in AI research. Always excited to dive into cutting-edge tech, data-driven insights, and innovative AI solutions! 🚀

My paper CodeQuant has been accepted by ICLR 2026!

Jan 2026

I'm excited to be a part of the AI research team at NYU SAI Lab!

May 2025

ResNet Sparse Distillation

The increasing depth and width of neural networks improve accuracy but also raise hardware requirements and slow down inference. This project proposes a distillation loss function that enables immediate weight and activation pruning on the student model after distillation.
ResNet Sparse Distillation

JEPA Architecture Probing Model

This project designed a JEPA architecture model with CNN and MLPs as encoder and predictor. The main task is to predict the trajectory of an object in an environment with wall and door.
JEPA Architecture Probing Model