In Submission to NeurIPS 2026
AgentSSL: Can MLE Agents Leverage Unlabeled Data?
A. Sarkar*, E. Lin* , Z. Liu, K. Branson, J. J. Sun
Ethan Lin
Incoming CMS PhD Student at Caltech
I am an incoming CMS PhD student at Caltech, where I will be working with Yisong Yue . I am completing my undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Cornell University, where I was fortunate to be advised by Jennifer J. Sun . I'm broadly interested in AI for scientific discovery, currently focused on leveraging agents for automating bottlenecks in scientific analysis pipelines.
News
Starting PhD at Caltech.
Will be presenting Simple Agents at CVPR.
Graduated from Cornell University.
Accepted to 4 PhD programs! (Caltech, MIT, UPenn, Cornell)
Attended CVPR.
Publications
Selected papers and ongoing research.
In Submission to COLM 2026
A case study of evaluating AI agents on a neuroscience data-to-discovery pipeline
K. A. Horstmann, E. Lin , A. A. Robie, J. J. Sun, K. Branson
In Submission to ECCV 2026
WildFin: An In-the-Wild Video Dataset from Underwater Ecology Pipelines
A. Grassick, J. T. Hsu, E. Lin , Z. Liu, M. Whitton, M. Hair, L. Gutierrez, H. Yu, K. Branson, V. Jayaraman, M. A. Gil, A. M. Hein, J. J. Sun
CVPR 2026
Simple Agents Outperform Experts in Biomedical Imaging Workflow Optimization
X. Wang, K. A. Horstmann, E. Lin , J. Chen, A. R. Farhang, S. Stiles, A. Sehgal, J. Light, D. Van Valen, Y. Yue, J. J. Sun
VisCon @ CVPR 2025
Best Poster Award
Beyond Accuracy: Metrics that Uncover what Makes a 'Good' Visual Descriptor
E. Lin , L. Zhao, A. Sehgal, J. J. Sun
Teaching
CS 4782: Introduction to Deep Learning
Teaching Assistant · Cornell University
SP 2026
CS 4620: Introduction to Computer Graphics
Teaching Assistant · Cornell University
FA 2026
CS 3780: Introduction to Machine Learning
Teaching Assistant · Cornell University
FA 2024, SP 2025
CS 2110: Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures
Teaching Assistant · Cornell University
SP 2024
Awards
- 2025-2026 · CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Honorable Mention
- 2025 · Best Poster Award - VisCon @ CVPR
- All Semesters · Cornell Dean's List