Elissa Li

Senior Data Scientist, TBD Lab, MSL (post-training, frontier evals for STEM) @ Meta

About

I am a data scientist at Meta, where I work primarily on research in the post-training evals and benchmarking space, focusing on STEM research. Prior to Meta I was a TA and researcher in natural language processing (NLP) and computational linguistics at Stanford University. I studied philosophy of language at Columbia University and the University of Oxford.

Country

United States

City

New York

Industry

Internet

Skill

A/B Testing, Statistical Modeling, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Public Speaking, English, Editing, Research, Data Analysis, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Photoshop, SQL, Python (Programming Language), Teaching, Spanish, Philosophy, Political Consulting

Experience

Senior Data Scientist, TBD Lab, MSL (post-training, frontier evals for STEM)

Senior Data Scientist - User Attribute Prediction (ecosystems, safety & integrity)

Graduate Teaching Assistant for CS 224U: Natural Language Understanding

Stanford University School of Engineering

2021-3 - 2021-6 · 4 mos

Under Chris Potts

NLP Researcher

Stanford University School of Engineering

2020-1 - 2021-6 · 1 yr 6 mos

Research assistant with ALPS Lab, studying the ability of deep learning/neural sentence encoders to predict scalar inference

Graduate Teaching Assistant for CS 224N: NLP with Deep Learning

Stanford University School of Engineering

2021-1 - 2021-3 · 3 mos

Stanford, California, United States

Lead developer on Cherokee-to-English neural machine translation (NMT) project, under Chris Manning

Data Scientist Intern

Facebook

2020-6 - 2020-9 · 4 mos

New York, United States

Equity Derivatives Investment Banking Associate

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

2019-6 - 2019-9 · 4 mos

Greater New York City Area

Equity Derivatives Investment Banking Analyst

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

2017-7 - 2019-6 · 2 yrs

New York, New York

Equity Capital Markets Summer Analyst

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

2016-6 - 2016-8 · 3 mos

Greater New York City Area

Education

Stanford University

Symbolic Systems (Machine Learning & Natural Language Processing)

2019 - 2021 · 2 yrs

University of Oxford

Philosophy Politics and Economics

2015 - 2016 · 1 yr

First Class Honours in Finance, The Later Wittgenstein, Ethics

Barnard College

Philosophy & Economics

2013 - 2017 · 4 yrs

summa cum laude • Junior Phi Beta Kappa (top 2% of graduating class) Best Thesis in Philosophy, 2017 (Reconciling Metalinguistic Negotiation with Semantic Externalism)