Alice Hau
Engineering (GenAI) at The D. E. Shaw Group
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlice Hau is an engineering-focused GenAI practitioner and former founder with a multidisciplinary background spanning computer science and philosophy. She builds production ML features and open-source AI agents—most recently at Block—and now works on generative AI engineering at D. E. Shaw, bringing hands-on product and research sensibilities to high-impact systems. Her career weaves startup founding (raised $4.5M for a fashion AI startup), federal tech policy work in the U.S. Senate, and research communication at Stanford HAI, giving her a rare mix of technical, entrepreneurial, and policy fluency. With degrees in CS and philosophy, she approaches AI problems with both rigorous engineering and ethical, human-centered perspectives.
1 year of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (20)
evaluation8
api5
prompt-engineering5
monitoring5
openai4
open-source4
ycombinator4
analytics4
server4
python4
llama-index4
observability3
langchain3
llm3
large-language-models3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
block/goose
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
Contributions:81 reviews, 41 PRs, 175 pushes in 6 months
ajgray-stripe/goose
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Goose is a developer agent that operates from your command line to help you do the boring stuff.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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