Christy Li
Undergraduate Researcher
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristy Li is an MIT undergraduate researcher specializing at the intersection of electro-optical engineering, integrated photonics, and machine learning, with 14 years of hands-on experience across research labs and industry internships. She has worked on quantum dot laser integration for silicon photonics and led integrated-photonics design and characterization for nonlinear and quantum optics, while more recently developing RL post-training and vision-language agents for bias detection and safe behavior in LLM-driven systems at MIT CSAIL. Christy blends experimental optics skills with ML safety and alignment research—mentored by groups including Anthropic and MIT—and has shipped practical tooling for automated hypothesis testing and self-reflection in vision models. Comfortable teaching and mentoring at scale, she has led recitations for large MIT EECS classes and advised technical projects at Scale AI. Based in Cambridge, she combines depth in photonics hardware with emerging expertise in ML alignment, making her adept at bridging lab prototypes and intelligent systems.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyScience, Mathematics, Computer Science Magnet Program, Science, Mathematics, Computer Science Magnet Program at Montgomery Blair High School
Github Skills (24)
hierarchical10
directives10
nested-lists10
drag9
react-dnd9
sorting8
api8
drag-and-drop8
lists8
angular-directives7
angular7
google-cloud4
aws3
git-repository3
formatter2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
christydennison/cs229
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
christydennison/angular-drag-and-drop-lists
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 4 tags in 4 months
apidirectiveslistssortinghtml5
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