Summary
Hailey Nguyen is a founding researcher and machine learning practitioner based in San Francisco with eight years of experience building scalable ML systems and advancing AI safety and LLM research. She led post-training expertise work on safety, helpfulness, code, and steerability at Meta’s FAIR Alignment Llama team and brings product-focused ML delivery experience from Principal Data Scientist roles at Capital One, including an issued US patent on profile-based NLP generation. Comfortable spanning research and production, she combines econometric and data-science roots from the IMF and a Master’s in Data Science with hands-on model development and deployment. Known informally as an "AI nerd," Hailey blends rigorous safety research with practical recommender and applied ML systems design, and now applies that mix to early-stage research and product formation at Worktrace AI.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Data Science, 4.0/ 4.0, Master's degree, Data Science, 4.0/ 4.0 at Illinois Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics & Business Double Majors with Global Studies & Environmental Studies minors, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics & Business Double Majors with Global Studies & Environmental Studies minors, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa at Randolph College
French, Vietnamese, English