Linda Wang
2026 Edition
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A reverse-chronological log of talks, papers, posts, jobs, and recognition.

2024
Nov 18
Co-authored a blog post on the PyTorch blog: Distilling Llama3.1 8B into 1B in torchtune.
2023
Sep 22
Mentor for Grace Hopper Open Source Day.
2022
Jun 13
Joined Meta as a Machine Learning Engineer on the AI Content Understanding team.
Jan 26
Published a blog post with Level 5 on a tool for understanding ML model performance.
2021
Apr 5
Finalist for the Governor General's Gold Medal (4 awarded at the Master's level).
2020
Nov 12
Poster presentation at NeurIPS 2020 Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving.
Nov 11
Paper published in Nature Scientific Reports.
Oct 23
Published a blog post about my Masters experience on Medium.
Oct 21
UWaterloo published a story on my research during my Masters.
Sep 16
Finalist for the Alumni Gold Medal (4 awarded at the Master's level).
Sep 2
Submitted Masters thesis.
Jul 6
Joined Lyft Level 5 full-time on the Perception team.
Jun 14
Poster presentation at CVPR 2020 Women in Computer Vision Workshop.
Mar 23
COVID-Net project covered by MIT Technology Review.
Mar 22
Released COVID-Net and COVIDx.
Mar 10
Paper published in Sensors: Biomedical Imaging and Sensing.
Mar 3
Panelist for Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Healthcare: The Need for Diverse Perspectives.
2019
Dec 9
Poster presentation at NeurIPS 2019 Women in Machine Learning Workshop.
Nov 5
Featured in Behind the Scenes: Interning at Level 5.
Jun 17
Oral and poster presentation at CVPR 2019 Fairness, Accountability, Transparency & Ethics in Computer Vision Workshop.
Jun 16
Poster presentation at CVPR 2019 Women in Computer Vision Workshop.