Amy Li

Amy Li

amyli1351[at]gmail.com

amy1351.github.io

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github.com/amy1351

EDUCATION

Carnegie Mellon University

B.S. in Computer Science, Minor in Neural Computation

Selected Coursework: Parallel and Sequential Data Structures and Algorithms, Database Systems, Probability Theory, Intro to Machine Learning, Intro to Deep Learning, AI Methods for Social Good

Pittsburgh, PA

05/2022

 

ENGINEERING RELATED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES

Skills: Python, C, C++, C#, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, React, SML, Android Studio, PyTorch, SQL

Software Engineer Intern

Facebook – Privacy Coverage Team

              01/2021 – 03/2021

Remote

·       Created a system of data pipelines to combine privacy and code-related signals and perform feature engineering.

·       Designed and built 3 end-to-end ML models to match required text documents to new privacy-sensitive code changes.

Teaching Assistant for 15-281 Artificial Intelligence: Representation and Problem-Solving

Carnegie Mellon University

              01/2020 – 12/2020

Pittsburgh, PA

·       Led weekly recitations, held office hours, graded assignments, and helped develop course material.

·       Course topics include knowledge representation, search, planning, optimization, and game theory.

Software Engineer Intern

Microsoft – MSAI Cortana Team

              05/2020 – 08/2020

Remote

·       Designed solutions to improve the back-end capabilities of Cortana, Microsoft’s digital productivity assistant.

·       Built infrastructure to analyze metrics and automate deployment decisions for 200K+ daily active users worldwide.

Explorer Intern

Microsoft – Outlook Web App Team

              05/2019 – 08/2019

Redmond, WA

·       Conducted user research and created a comprehensive product design spec for a new feature in Outlook Web.

·       Created back-end server changes and built the UI for the feature tooltip in the email reading pane.

Software Development Intern

Expedia, Inc.

              06/2017 – 08/2017

Bellevue, WA

·       Built A/B tests to improve site usability and increase user conversion in the Bundle Deals shopping path.

 

LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Women@SCS & SCS4ALL Mentoring Program Co-Chair

Carnegie Mellon University

08/2019 – present

Pittsburgh, PA

·       Organize and lead undergraduate mentoring program for over 200 students in the School of Computer Science.

Girls Who Code Club Co-founder & President

Garfield High School

09/2015 – 06/2018

Seattle, WA

·       Taught weekly coding lessons to 30 girls and coordinated club outreach with local tech companies and sponsors.

 

PROJECTS

Planning Volunteer Assignments for Ocean and Beach Pollution Cleanup

   01/2020 – 05/2020

·       Created an integer programming formulation in Python to determine the optimal locations to hold annual beach cleanup efforts around the world based on plastics pollution, geography, population density, and wildlife data.  

Seeker Mobile App

   09/2017 – 06/2018

·       Interactive scavenger hunt game for the city of Seattle. Used Android Studio, Google Maps API, and Firebase Realtime Database. Released in the Google Play Store in 2018.

Predadorks VR Game

05/2018

·       Multiplayer VR maze running game created in 24 hours at CodeDay. Used Unity 3D and handmade VR headsets. Won CodeDay Best in Class Award for creativity.

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

Rewriting the Code Fellow

2019 – 2021

Dean’s List with High Honors

Fall 2019 – Fall 2020

Carnegie Mellon Grace Hopper Scholar

2019

NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing

2017, 2018