Tianle Li
Member Of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolTianle Li is a machine learning engineer and CS PhD candidate at UC Berkeley with eight years of hands-on experience building and scaling large language models and RL systems. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab after co-creating and leading post-training RL and model-merging efforts on Grok releases at xAI, he focuses on the hardest problems between current models and superintelligence. His background spans industry R&D (xAI, Nexusflow, Google), tools and deployment (AMD, enterprise APIs), and platform-building research like Chatbot Arena at Berkeley Sky Computing Lab. Comfortable moving between research and production, he has led distillation, RL fine-tuning, and scaling efforts that bridge paper ideas to deliverable models. Notably, he blends academic rigor from Berkeley EECS with pragmatic engineering—often preferring to “make models cracked” through adversarial training and clever post-training interventions.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Esperanza High School
Chinese, English, Japanese
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Github Skills (37)
deprecated8
mir7
jupyter-notebook7
jekyll6
deep-learning6
wave6
machine-learning6
python6
source-separation5
loss5
tensorflow5
unsupervised-learning5
audio5
audio-processing5
spectrogram5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Tinglok/avstyle
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
Tinglok/academic-homepage
Sep 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:541 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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