Jordan Lin

Hello! My name is Kuan Heng (Jordan) Lin, and I am a first-year PhD student at Columbia University, where I am fortunate to be advised by Aleksander Hołyński and Micah Goldblum. I am interested in understanding and controlling multimodal generative models to allows to interact with them in a more human way.

I graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in Computer Science and minor in Mathematics, during which I had a great time working with Bolei Zhou on controllable image generation.

I was a research intern at Netflix Eyeline Studios, where I worked on controllable video generation with Ning Yu. I was also a research engineering intern at Snap’s Creative Vision team, where I worked on 2D parallelism for scaling up video diffusion model training (Snap Video V2) with Willi Menapace.

I am also passionate about CS and ML education: I was part of the Program Development Team at the UCLA Learning Assistant Program, and I was an Advisor and Ex-President of ACM AI @ UCLA.

I do photography and filmmaking.

My name: 林宽恒 (lín kuān héng), hence my legal name Kuan Heng Lin.