Rebecca Y. E. Lin
ryelin@mit.edu rebeccayelin.github.io

Education
2022-Now

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD in Computer Science
Adviser: Erik Demaine

2017-2022

University of British Columbia
BSc in Honors Computer Science
Adviser: William EvansExperience‣ Research2024-Now

MIT Media Lab
Graduate Research Assistant
Advisor: Zach Lieberman

2022-Now

MIT CSAIL
Graduate Research Assistant
Advisor: Erik Demaine

2024

Adobe Research
Research Scientist Intern
Mentor: Mackenzie Leake

2023

University of Tokyo
Visiting Researcher
Mentor: Tomohiro Tachi

2020-2022

2021

University of British Columbia
Undergraduate Researcher:
Advisors: William Evans, Nicholas Harvey, and Alla Sheffer
University of Waterloo
Undergraduate Researcher
Advisor: Craig Kaplan‣ Industry2020

Microsoft
Software Engineering Intern2019

Microsoft
Software Engineering InternUpdated October 9, 2024

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2019

Cisco Systems
Cloud Infrastructure Engineering Intern‣ Teaching
Fall 2024

MIT: 6.1220 Design & Analysis of Algorithms
Graduate Teaching Assistant — 20 hrs/week

Spring 2024

MIT: 6.1220 Design & Analysis of Algorithms
Graduate Teaching Assistant — 20 hrs/week

Fall 2023

MIT: 6.1001 Fundamentals of Programming
Graduate Teaching Assistant — 20 hrs/week

Summer 2021

Fall 2020

UBC: CPSC 320 Intermediate Algorithm Design & Analysis
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant — 12 hrs/week
UBC: CPSC 221 Basic Algorithms & Data Structures
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant — 12 hrs/week

Honors2024-2027

Postgraduate Scholarship - Doctoral (PGS-D)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

120,000 CAD

2024-2027

Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral (CGS-D) — declined
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

120,000 CAD

2022

Stata Family Presidential Fellowship
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2022

Canada Graduate Scholarship - Masters (CGS-M) — declined
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

17,500 CAD

2020
2021

Undergraduate Student Research Award
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

4,500 CAD
6,000 CAD

2020
2021
2022

Rick Sample Memorial Award in Computer Science
University of British Columbia

2,500 CAD
2,800 CAD
2,500 CAD

2021

Undergraduate Research Fellowship
University of Waterloo

15,000 CAD

2021

Laura Huber Memorial Award for Women in Video Gaming
Electronic Arts via the University of British Columbia

10,000 CAD

2021

Irving K. Barber Women in Technology Scholarship
BC Scholarship Society

10,000 CAD

Trek Excellence Scholarship
University of British Columbia

1,500 CAD

Summer Studentship
BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute4,750 CAD

2018, 2020

2018

Updated October 9, 2024

full tuition& stipend

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Summer Student Research Program
University of British Columbia — 2,800 CADPublications(α) denotes alphabetical ordering, typical in theoretical computer science, and * denotes equal contribution‣ Journals
2022

Detecting Viewer-Perceived Intended Vector Sketch Connectivity
Jerry Yin*, Chenxi Liu*, Rebecca Lin, Nicholas Vining, Hedge Rhodin, Alla Sheffer
ACM Transaction on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2022)‣ Conferences
2024

Graph Threading(α) Erik D. Demaine, Yael Kirkpatrick, Rebecca LinITCS 2024

2022

The Polygon Burning Problem(α) William Evans, Rebecca LinWALCOM 2022

‣ Preprints
2024

Graph Threading with Turn Costs(α) Erik D. Demaine, Yael Kirkpatrick, Rebecca Lin2023

Learning Lens Blur Fields
Esther Y. H. Lin, Zhecheng Wang, Rebecca Lin, Daniel Miau, Florian Kainz, Jiawen Chen, CeciliaZhang, David B. Lindell, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos‣ Miscellaneous
2024

Folding One Polyhedral Metric Graph into Another(α) Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Markus Hecher, Rebecca Lin, Jayson Lynch, Chie Nara
JCDCG^3 — Abstract

2024

Continuous Flattening of Convex Polyhedral Linkages(α) Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Markus Hecher, Rebecca Lin, Victor H. Luo, Chie Nara
JCDCG^3 — Abstract

2024

Routing Recon gurations
Rebecca Lin, Wenzhong Yan, Ankur Mehta, Erik D. Demaine
SCF 2024 — Demofi

Updated October 9, 2024

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Grants
2024

MIT Design to Making Mini-Grant for Modular and Reconfigurable Garments — 500 USD

2024

CAMIT Graduate Student Seed Grant for Reconfigurable Sculptures — 500 USD

2023

CAMIT Grants Committee Funding for Metallic Kusudamas — 4,940 USD

Outreach2024-2025

MIT EECS Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Member

2022-2023

MIT EECS Graduate Application Assistant Program: Organizer & Mentor

2022
2020-2022
2017

SIGGRAPH Undergraduate Mentorship Program: Mentor
City Center Community Center: Youth Instructor
Science World British Columbia: Barbara Brink Intern

Mentorship
2024

Pooria Jalali Farahani and Saba Molaei, Sharif University of Technology

2023

Cindy Zhang, MITService
Reviewed for FUN 2024, WALCOM 2023, and CCCG 2022.

Updated October 9, 2024

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