Michael Li
Assistant Professor at Harvard University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Li is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School’s TOM Unit and Chief Data Scientist/co‑founder at Waffle Labs, combining a decade of applied research and industry experience to build optimization, ML, and causal-inference tools with measurable societal impact. He holds a PhD in Operations Research and an MBAn from MIT and a Mathematics BA from Cambridge, and his academic work spans fast matrix completion, stochastic cutting planes, and individualized treatment rules with multiple papers in top journals. His primary focus is healthcare algorithmics, though his methods have been deployed in insurance and supply-chain settings, including founding an insurtech that bridged research and product. Known for translating rigorous theory into production-ready systems, he has led ML efforts at Lineage and StubHub and applied analytics to pandemic forecasting and pediatric medicine, reflecting a rare mix of academic rigor and startup execution.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Analytics, Operations Research, 5.0/5.0, Master of Business Analytics, Operations Research, 5.0/5.0 at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, First (1:1), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, First (1:1) at University of CambridgeHigh School, Shanghai High School International Division, 45, High School, Shanghai High School International Division, 45 at International BaccalaureateIB Diploma, IB Diploma at Shanghai High School Intl. Division
Chinese, English, French
Github Skills (31)
classification9
fasttext8
backpropagation-through-time7
lexical-analysis6
turkish5
linkage5
word-segmentation5
java4
lda4
similarity4
python4
part-of-speech-tagger4
dfa4
bert3
natural-language-processing3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HIT2nd/HIT-secondary-trading-platform
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
HITlilingzhi/SMP2017ECDT-DATA
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
SMP2017中文人机对话评测数据
Contributions:10 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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