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Jason Lin

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Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Jason is a GenAI researcher at Google DeepMind with experience at Google[x], Lyft, and Apple. A USC alumnus, he co-founded the AI startup Faber and Lyfts self-driving deep learning team. His expertise spans LLMs, multimodal AI, and AI safety, and he has advised the United Nations on AI policy.

Born in Canada and raised in Hong Kong, Jason identifies as a global citizen. He has a keen interest in philosophy and history, with a reading list that includes Bertrand Russell and Benjamin Franklin. In his past, he has also been a guitar student.

Unique fact: Jason was invited by the United Nations to advise the Security Council on the use of AI in military applications and peacebuilding efforts.

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Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Research Scientist
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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AI Safety & Policy
Advises the UN Institute for Disarmament Research on AI for military use and has worked on LLM red-teaming at MIT.
AI for Good
Passionate about benevolent missions, from a hackathon-winning vision aid for the visually impaired to deploying Image Question Answering at Google.
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Career

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Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
8-2023
Research Engineer, Multimodal
Google DeepMind
Venture Fellow → Investing
Fusion Fund
AI Alignment & Safety
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
2-2021
Machine Learning Engineer, 3D DL Lead
Lyft Level 5
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University of Southern California
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Stanford University
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