Ellie Cheng
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEllie Cheng is a PhD student and research scholar at MIT CSAIL with eight years of software engineering and research experience at the intersection of AI and programming languages. Her background spans industry internships at Meta, Facebook/Instagram, and Stripe, and research roles optimizing probabilistic programming systems (Dice in OCaml) and exploring explainable AI with work accepted to NeurIPS. She blends practical production experience—building ML infrastructure and ranking systems—with deep systems and PL expertise from her academic projects. Known for organizing and teaching technical communities at UCLA (CTFs, training director), she brings a rare combination of production-grade engineering, research rigor, and hands-on security/CTF practice.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (53)
probabilistic9
markov-decision-processes9
vanity-url8
clock8
agda8
ergonomics8
vanity7
alarm7
creator7
parse7
synchronous7
complexity7
theorem-proving7
inference6
machine-learning6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ellieyhcheng/ellieyhcheng.github.io
Jun 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:46 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 7 months
uclaacm/cyber-platform
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
A simple CTF platform in a single binary
Contributions:78 commits in 5 months
ctfctf-platformsingle-binary
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