Ellie Cheng
Research Scholar at SRC Research Scholars Program
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEllie Cheng is a PhD student and research scholar at MIT CSAIL with eight years of software engineering and research experience at the intersection of AI and programming languages. Her background spans industry internships at Meta, Facebook/Instagram, and Stripe, and research roles optimizing probabilistic programming systems (Dice in OCaml) and exploring explainable AI with work accepted to NeurIPS. She blends practical production experience—building ML infrastructure and ranking systems—with deep systems and PL expertise from her academic projects. Known for organizing and teaching technical communities at UCLA (CTFs, training director), she brings a rare combination of production-grade engineering, research rigor, and hands-on security/CTF practice.
8 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 California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (39)
vanity-url8
ocaml7
inference7
clock7
python-bindings7
parse6
alarm6
parser6
probabilistic-programming6
react5
js5
tree5
python5
xai4
programming-language4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ellieyhcheng/aetla
Jul 2019 - Dec 2019
Course planning tool for college students.
Contributions:46 PRs, 109 pushes, 42 branches in 5 months
reactplanning-toolcourse-planningplanningjava
ycyvonne/ResearchUCLA
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:35 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 4 months
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