National Taiwan University
UC San Diego
Cornell University
Jose M. AlvarezDirector · NVIDIAResearcher↗
Researcher
Tsung-Yi Lin
NVIDIAResearch Director, Cosmos Lab
Career & education
Current roleNVIDIA2022-presentResearch Director, Cosmos Lab
NVIDIA2022-presentPreviously
Google Brain2017-2022Senior Research Scientist
Google Brain2017-2022Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations212,671As of Nov 1, '26
citations+2,479Since last snapshot, Oct 13, '26
Selected contributions
Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context
With Michael Maire, Serge Belongie, Lubomir Bourdev, Ross Girshick, James Hays, Pietro Perona, Deva Ramanan and others ·A dataset of everyday scenes with individual objects labeled and outlined.
Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection
Focal loss shifts object-detector training toward difficult examples rather than easy ones.
References
- Tsung-Yi Lin — project historytsungyilin.info
Tsung-Yi Lin — project history supports the anchored contribution. Personal page explicitly credits leading COCO; original focal-loss authorship and foreground/background imbalance checked. Existing prose preserved.
- Focal Loss for Dense Object Detectionarxiv.org
Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection supports the anchored contribution. Personal page explicitly credits leading COCO; original focal-loss authorship and foreground/background imbalance checked. Existing prose preserved.
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