Yen-Chun Chen
Career profile

Yen-Chun Chen

Synthesizing tokens & building AGI @ poolside AI 🏖️ | ex-Microsoft Researcher (Phi-3 Vision, Phi-4 MM, Phi-4 Reasoning) | Multimodal & Coding LLMs, RL, and Reasoning

Seattle, Washington, United States

Career path.

  1. poolside

    Member of Engineering

    Sep 2025 - Present
  2. Microsoft

    Researcher

    Sep 2018 - Sep 2025
  3. Stackline

    Machine Learning Scientist

    Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
  4. DOCOMO Innovations, Inc.

    Research Engineer Intern

    May 2016 - Aug 2016