Thien Le
Graduate Research Assistant In EECS
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThien Le is a PhD candidate and Graduate Research Assistant in EECS at MIT with 11 years of research and engineering experience in discrete and continuous optimization, algorithms, and computational biology. He combines rigorous theoretical training (BS in Math & CS, 3.95 GPA) with hands-on systems work—implementing and optimizing C code, developing parallel heuristics, and preserving statistical guarantees for large-scale biological datasets. His past projects include scalable phylogeny estimation and statistical analysis of cancer heterogeneity, resulting in published work and practical algorithmic contributions. Based in Cambridge, MA, he excels at turning elegant, provable ideas into efficient implementations suited for real-world data and compute constraints.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (2)
macos2
linux2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
steven-le-thien/INC
Jul 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:81 commits, 2 PRs, 65 pushes in 2 years 8 months
steven-le-thien/new_dactal
Oct 2019 - Apr 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 years 6 months
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