Yelin Kim

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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.

A former tenure-track professor at SUNY Albany, Yelin has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications at top conferences and journals. Her recent work includes an ECCV 2026 Oral and a CVPR 2026 Highlight (top 2.5%). She 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. She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering: Systems from the University of Michigan and her B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University.