Alvin Tsai

CS/AI @ MIT | Prev SWE Intern @ LinkedIn

New York City Metropolitan Area

About

Hi! I am a rising senior at MIT majoring in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making with a minor in Mathematics. I'm passionate about ML, data science and trading.

Experience

  • Software Engineer Intern at LinkedIn
    May 2025 - Aug 2025 · 4 mos

  • Lab Assistant at MIT EECS
    Feb 2025 - May 2025 · 4 mos

    - Mentored students in Fundamentals of Programming class - Assisted students with their coding assignments by helping them start with pseudocode, teaching good coding practices and providing specific debugging feedback and strategies - Ensure student success and understanding by asking clarifying questions and reinforcing key concepts beyond assignment completion

  • Software Engineer Intern at Learn Ventures
    Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 · 3 mos

    - Developed a flood-filling network to segment neuronal structures from 3D microscopic images with TensorFlow - Extracted 100+ GB of light microscopy images and segmentation masks via TensorStore - Leveraged multiprocessing and ezq libraries to efficiently preprocess segmentation volumes in parallel

  • Undergraduate Researcher at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
    Jun 2023 - Aug 2023 · 3 mos

    - developed a facial recognition model with an accuracy of 0.962 using a binary classifier, FaceNet and face-recognition library that identified participants in a zoom meeting - realized and led the initiative to remove noise from the dataset, leading to an increased accuracy of 0.85 for the voice recognition model that transcribed and diarized zoom meetings - utilized LangChain and Dropbox API to summarize lab dropbox files - enhanced the Idea Navigator website's user interface using React, featuring a 2D graph of papers for clustering similar ideas and tools to find and summarize papers