Michael Li
Assistant Professor at Waffle Insurance
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Li is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School’s TOM Unit and Chief Data Scientist/co‑founder at Waffle Labs, combining a decade of applied research and industry experience to build optimization, ML, and causal-inference tools with measurable societal impact. He holds a PhD in Operations Research and an MBAn from MIT and a Mathematics BA from Cambridge, and his academic work spans fast matrix completion, stochastic cutting planes, and individualized treatment rules with multiple papers in top journals. His primary focus is healthcare algorithmics, though his methods have been deployed in insurance and supply-chain settings, including founding an insurtech that bridged research and product. Known for translating rigorous theory into production-ready systems, he has led ML efforts at Lineage and StubHub and applied analytics to pandemic forecasting and pediatric medicine, reflecting a rare mix of academic rigor and startup execution.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Analytics, Operations Research, 5.0/5.0, Master of Business Analytics, Operations Research, 5.0/5.0 at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, First (1:1), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, First (1:1) at University of CambridgeHigh School, Shanghai High School International Division, 45, High School, Shanghai High School International Division, 45 at International BaccalaureateIB Diploma, IB Diploma at Shanghai High School Intl. Division
Chinese, English, French
Github Skills (45)
classifier9
wordnet9
tf-idf9
glove9
classification8
sentence-similarity8
document-classification8
fasttext8
bengali8
lda8
similarity8
topic-modeling8
latent-dirichlet-allocation8
word2vec8
word-embeddings7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HIT2nd/HIT-secondary-trading-platform
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
HITlilingzhi/SMP2017ECDT-DATA
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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