Ian Lin

About Me

I'm Ian (Guan-Chen) Lin, a builder and researcher based in Taiwan. I'm a master's student at NTU's Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, after a CS undergraduate degree at NTU. Before that I was a physics olympiad finalist and spent two years in medical school, a mix that shapes how I approach problems.

In 2026 I co-founded Kanesh, a zero-knowledge-proof compliance platform for textile supply chains, and learned a lot about customer discovery and pitching. My technical work spans CUDA, diffusion models (including diffusion-based chip placement), and inference optimization for a drone VLM agent. I'm now moving toward robot learning, with a robotics PhD as the goal.

Right now I'm building smurg, a multiuser agent orchestration platform.

Ian Lin standing on a rooftop at sunset

Experience

ELSA Lab

2026

Researcher

  • Robotics Research
  • Dexterous Hand Manipulation (w/ NVIDIA Researcher)

Foxconn

2026

AI Researcher Intern

  • Model Training for Computer Vision & Natural Language Processing

Academia Sinica

2025

Research Intern

  • Quantum Software and Formal Verification Lab

Awards

Taiwan Physics Olympiad Finalist

2020

NTU Dean's List Award

2025

Projects

Education

National Taiwan University

M.S., Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering

Robotics, Chip Design

2026 – 2028

B.S. in Computer Science

2024 – 2026

B.S. in Medicine

Transferred

2022 – 2024