Yichen Lin | UC San Diego

🎓 Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego (2025 – Now)

Advisor: Prof. Yufei Ding

B.S. in Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University (2021 – 2025)

🧠 Publications

TritonGym: A Benchmark for Agentic LLM Workflows in Triton GPU Code Generation
Yue Guan*, Yichen Lin*, et al.
[In submission to ICLR 2026]

(Re)²H₂O: Autonomous Driving Scenario Generation via Reversely Regularized Hybrid Offline-and-Online Reinforcement Learning
Haoyi Niu*, Kun Ren*, Yichen Lin, et al.
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2023

💼 Internships

Picasso Lab (UCSD CSE) — Research Intern (Mar 2024 – Feb 2025, Hybrid)

Developed a CXL system simulator for large model communication.
Helped set up lab websites and use RAG to parse academic papers.

Metabit — Quantitative Developer Intern (Sep 2024 – Nov 2024, Shanghai)

Optimized data parsing and added streaming read support for AI Platform.

Tencent (Timi Studio) — Game Developer Intern (Jun 2024 – Jul 2024, Beijing)

Developed Monster Hunter mobile game client with voice-controlled teammates.

Disney+ Hotstar — Algorithm Developer Intern (Mar 2024 – Jun 2024, Beijing)

Optimized search page, fine-tuned recommendation model for TPUs.

ByteDance Lark — Backend Developer Intern (Jun 2023 – Nov 2023, Beijing)

Developed AskAI assistant using Redis and RocketMQ for sales data analysis.

🚀 Projects

Starry-Next (Monolithic Kernel OS)
Implemented networking component as a graduation project. Instant Messaging System
Built real-time chat website with WebSocket and Django. OJ (Code Evaluation System)
Built Rust-based platform for data structure assignment grading.

LLM Agent Flow (TritonGym)
Proposed new algorithm for tool-augmented LLMs in GPU code generation.

🧩 Skills

Languages: Python, C++, Go, Rust, TypeScript, JavaScript, Verilog

Tools: Linux, Vim, LaTeX, WebSocket, Django, MongoDB