Alex Li
Senior AI Research Scientist at WorkFusion
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Li is a Senior AI Research Scientist with nine years of hands-on experience building machine learning and data-driven systems, currently leading AI research at WorkFusion. He blends a strong academic foundation (M.S. from Columbia) and applied R&D experience—from medical device process engineering at BD to quantitative development at Société Générale—to deliver production-ready models, AutoML features, and data pipelines. Proficient across Python, Java, R and full-stack tooling, he has shipped information-extraction and classification capabilities for enterprise AutoML and built risk-monitoring SPAs and robust REST APIs. Alex’s background in experimental design and large-scale data processing (including generating and analyzing 150+ GB research datasets) informs his pragmatic approach to feature engineering, model validation, and deployment. Colleagues rely on his clear communication and cross-disciplinary problem solving to bridge research, engineering, and product needs.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University in the City of New YorkThe University of Utah
English, Chinese
Github Skills (3)
mongodb5
nodejs5
javascript4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yali107/Ninkasi_app_v1.0.0
Jan 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
yali107/home
Aug 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:10 PRs, 18 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 5 months
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