Tony Li

B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics at Yale. Previously built AI infrastructure and data infrastructure at TikTok.

About

I'm interested in ML systems, high-performance code, and applied data science. Lately I've been exploring GPU programming and applied machine learning. Outside of school and work, I like building small full-stack apps.

Education

Yale University logo
Yale UniversitySep 2022 – May 2026

B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics

Relevant coursework

Operating Systems, Compilers, Systems Programming, Algorithms, Randomized Algorithms, Data Structures, Introduction to Machine Learning, Applied Machine Learning and Causal Inference, Linear Models, Full-stack Web Programming, Parallel Programming

Experience

  1. Alkera AI logo
    Alkera AICo-founder, COO

    Creating the next generation data IDE.

  2. TikTok logo
    TikTokSoftware Engineer Intern

    Built a Python framework for creating multi-agent, MCP-compatible AI workflows, with less boilerplate and more customizability than LangChain and LangGraph.

  3. Carthage Capital logo
    Carthage CapitalQuantitative Developer Intern

    Engineered data pipelines to extract relationships between prices, volatilities, and other factors for 10,000+ symbols daily.

  4. Yale University logo
    Yale UniversityUndergraduate Research Assistant

    Integrated two neural network models into an existing ensemble model for identifying particles from grids obtained by Cryo-EM.

Selected Projects

Skills

C · C++ · Python · TypeScript · React · AWS · PyTorch