Lillian Tsai
Systems Research Engineer at MIT EECS
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLillian Tsai is a systems research engineer and PhD candidate with 11 years of experience designing and prototyping infrastructure for privacy- and security-focused systems, currently researching in Systems Research at Google and as a Communications Lab Fellow at MIT EECS. Her background spans high-impact research internships and fellowships at Microsoft Research, Max Planck, and Harvard, with hands-on work in speculative-execution memory analysis, encounter-based secure Bluetooth communication, and transactional memory systems. She combines deep systems and distributed-systems expertise with teaching and course development experience (including serving as TA for MIT’s 6.824), enabling clear translation of research into practical, deployable prototypes. Based in Mountain View, she pairs rigorous academic training from Harvard and MIT with a track record of cross-disciplinary collaboration on the social and ethical dimensions of computing. Off the clock she’s an avid violinist and climber who still sightreads chamber music, a detail that reflects her penchant for rapid pattern recognition and collaborative problem-solving.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Henry M. Gunn High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyA.B./S.M. Computer Science, A.B./S.M. Computer Science at Harvard University
Github Skills (29)
concurrent10
verification10
coq10
concurrency10
rust9
transactional7
ntfs6
act5
lock-free5
android-app5
nfs5
server4
jsinterop4
sdk4
c-library4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tslilyai/edna
Jul 2023 - May 2024
Data disguising and revealing for web applications
Contributions:1 release, 20 PRs, 470 pushes in 10 months
tslilyai/tslilyai.github.io
Dec 2017 - Jun 2024
Contributions:89 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
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