# Pearl Li

> MIT EECS | YC S23

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/pearl

## Work Experience
### Co-Founder @ Read Bean
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
Worked as part of Meta AI Research to optimize Transformer models for natural language processing applications.

### Machine Learning Engineer @ Primer.ai
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Machine Learning Engineer @ Assetario
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

### Insight: Software Engineering @ Jane Street
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States
- learned about OCaml and the libraries and tools
- wrote backend and UI for a computer game
- learned about basic trading strategies and wrote trading bot that trades on a simulated stock exchange

### Research Assistant @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

### Software Engineer @ Dimensional Insight
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

### Research Assistant @ MIT Media Lab
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

### Astrophysics Research @ The Summer Science Program
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Socorro, New Mexico, United States
• Selected internationally as 1 of 36 students to participate in a 5-week astrophysics research program
• Observed, investigated, and modeled the orbit of Near- Earth Asteroid 1991 PM5 with a C-14 telescope
• Used Numpy and matplotlib to de-noise raw images for further calculations of the asteroid’s velocity and position vectors; utilized VPython to model the asteroid’s orbit
• Published findings in the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Circular


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023

### High School Diploma
Bishop O'Dowd High School
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pearlli98

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Last updated: 2026-03-20