Hongtao Lin is a Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest and has held various academic and research roles, including Course Producer and Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Southern California, where Lin worked on Knowledge Extraction and Reasoning as well as Information Extraction. Prior experience includes an internship as a Software Engineer at Google, an Undergraduate Research Assistant at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and a Research Intern at Microsoft. Hongtao Lin earned a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California between 2017 and 2019 and participated in a program at the University of California, Berkeley in 2015.