Lester Li
Student
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolLester Li is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at MIT with eight years of hands-on research experience at the intersection of AI, robotics, and physics-based simulation. He contributed to high-impact projects at the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab, authoring ICLR papers on differentiable physics for dexterous and soft-body manipulation. His earlier work in deep learning and computational neuroscience at Brown’s Serre Lab informs a cross-disciplinary approach to perception and control. Based in Cambridge, Lester combines rigorous academic training from Rochester and MIT with practical research engineering, and outside the lab he channels creativity into rap, dance, and basketball—underscoring a collaborative, expressive problem-solving style.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Rochester
Github Skills (22)
javascript9
react9
frontend9
user-interface8
declarative8
typescript8
macbook-pro8
touchbar7
copilot6
vue5
dock5
wechat5
ui-components5
widgets5
macos-big-sur4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
notFoundTheGuy/Sword-doc
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
sword组件库文档
Contributions:6 commits, 40 pushes, 10 branches in 3 days
sword
notFoundTheGuy/sword-v3
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Contributions:1 commit, 49 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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