Summary
Elizaveta Pertseva is a PhD computer science researcher at Stanford with seven years of experience building practical verification and data-driven tools that bridge formal methods, cryptography, and HCI. She focuses on making verification tooling intuitive and integrable—currently advancing SMT solver techniques for zero-knowledge proof verification—and has applied similar tooling skills to domain-specific languages for oceanography and neuro-symbolic program synthesis. Her background spans research internships and applied data engineering roles at Amazon, Upstart, and Pacific Life, giving her a rare blend of theoretical rigor and production-oriented engineering. She has contributed to published workshop work in program synthesis and PL+HCI and helped deploy ML training materials at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, reflecting both research impact and teaching experience. Based in the Bay Area, she combines strong mathematical foundations with hands-on systems implementation to turn formal ideas into usable developer workflows.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Menlo-Atherton High School
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Stanford University
Russian, French, English