Levi Boxell
Engineering Manager, Machine Learning And Economics at Instacart
United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolLevi Boxell is an engineering manager at Instacart who leads a centralized machine learning and economics team focused on ads auctions, optimized bidding, causal inference, and contextual bandits. He holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford with multiple academic publications and 3,500+ Google Scholar citations, and his research has reached national news outlets. Over a decade of experience bridges rigorous academic causal methods with production ML systems, driving monetization and pricing experiments at scale. Known for translating economic theory into practical auction and targeting systems, he has earned multiple internal technical and team awards for product impact. Despite a primarily research-to-product trajectory, he remains hands-on in algorithm design and experimentation, combining economics, ML, and software engineering to improve business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Developmental Economics, Math, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Developmental Economics, Math at Taylor UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics at Stanford University
Github Skills (17)
nlp9
speech-recognition8
python8
deep-learning8
natural-language-processing8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
tensorflow7
bert7
transformer7
language-model6
transformers6
jax5
seq2seq4
flax2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gslab-econ/template
Jul 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:21 releases, 83 commits, 29 PRs in 8 months
lboxell/gslab_python
Jun 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.