Speaker
Yelin Kim
CV/ML Science Lead at Amazon Last Mile
Career
- Lead Scientist, Amazon Last Mile AR Delivery Glasses
- Former Edge AI and Human-Centered Perception Lead, Amazon Astro
- Former tenure-track professor, SUNY Albany
Education
- Electrical Engineering: Systems — M.S. and Ph.D., University of Michigan
- Electrical and Computer Engineering — B.S., Seoul National University
Yelin Kim is a lead scientist on Amazon’s Last Mile AR Delivery Glasses project in Sunnyvale, California. She directs the AI technical strategy for Amazon’s last-hundred-yard delivery program built on AR smart glasses, leading a cross-organization science team spanning computer vision, SLAM/VIO, and on-device multimodal perception. Over the past decade, she has bridged frontier AI research and large-scale product delivery, shipping real-time perception models on power- and latency-constrained wearable and robotic edge devices. Previously, she led Edge AI and human-centered perception for Amazon’s first consumer home robot, Astro, delivering human-robot interaction features and founding its affective computing charter. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, including an ECCV 2026 Oral and a CVPR 2026 Highlight (top 2.5%), and holds four granted U.S. patents in multimodal and on-device perception. Her honors include a Google Faculty Research Award and a Best Paper Award at ACM Multimedia.