Amy Li |
amyli1351[at]gmail.com |
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 |