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Tsung-Yi Lin

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Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Lin led the creation of COCO, the dataset and benchmark that gave computer-vision researchers a common test for detecting and describing objects. He also co-created focal loss, which helps detectors learn from rare objects instead of being overwhelmed by easy background examples.

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Senior Research Scientist
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Last editorial review: August 8, 2026