Summary
Christina Last is a machine learning researcher with eight years of experience bridging academic excellence and entrepreneurial impact, currently at Mila after an MSc at MIT and a US-UK Fulbright. Her work spans graph neural networks, reinforcement learning and MLOps, and she co-founded AQAI where she led a CHI paper and won awards from NASA, OpenAI and others. She has translated research into real-world health and urban systems through roles at CMU, The Alan Turing Institute and MIT’s Senseable City Lab, and advises product-focused ML teams. Comfortable moving between deep research and deployment, she also builds community at scale—previously running workshops for 100k+ engineers—and has a track record of securing competitive fellowships and top-tier selection processes.
8 years of coding experience