Vetted Research Assistants

George Sun

Screened

Mid-level investor specializing in cross-border private equity and tech

Cambridge, MA4y exp

“Investor/banker with cross-border sourcing experience spanning JPMorgan, Ascendant, Pumavira, and EQD, covering AI, advanced manufacturing, TMT, and consumer healthcare. Stands out for turning cold founder outreach into long-term banking engagements and for combining high-volume sourcing with rigorous early-stage commercial and regulatory screening.”

“LLM/agent engineer who built a production code-generation agent at Corvic AI that lets non-technical users query CSV/tabular data in natural language by generating and executing Python. Focused on making LLM systems reliable and scalable via schema-aware validation, sandboxed execution-feedback retries, prompt caching/embeddings, async execution, and high-throughput data processing with Polars; also partnered with Adobe product/marketing to ship brand-aligned AI content generation for email and push notifications.”

“Entrepreneur building an AI-driven small molecule biotech startup who has already raised $5M from major venture capital investors. Brings 3 years of fundraising experience and a thoughtful approach to aligning investors with different risk profiles across financing stages, paired with strong conviction around founding high-risk, high-upside companies.”

Denis Siminiuc

Screened

Junior Research Assistant specializing in LLMs, NLP, and data systems

Cambridge, MA3y exp

“Software-focused candidate who built a data monitoring pipeline during a hedge fund internship, integrating real databases and an email API to notify teams when data was ready. Comfortable working through legacy/scrappy code and uses LLMs to accelerate comprehension and delivery, with an emphasis on thorough testing and clear communication with stakeholders/customers.”

“ML/NLP engineer with experience at NVIDIA and Cruise building production-grade AI systems across genomics/biomedical research and autonomous vehicle data. Has delivered multimodal LLM pipelines, large-scale entity resolution, and hybrid semantic search (BERT embeddings + FAISS + Elasticsearch), with measurable impact (≈40% accuracy/retrieval gains; ≈30% data consistency improvement) and strong MLOps practices (Kubernetes, CI/CD, MLflow, Prometheus/Grafana).”

“CMU robotics PhD/PhD researcher and former CMU Robotics Club project lead who built a novel Bayes-filter-based system to localize within music so robotic instruments can follow a human’s tempo in real time. Also works on simulation-heavy multi-agent vehicle routing with traffic-signal scheduling, optimizing for real-time performance via profiling, multithreading, and neural-network surrogates for signal control.”

“Software engineering intern who built an internal AI-agent automation using the Gemini API to reduce manual CRM data entry, iterating prompts closely with analysts to address precision concerns. Also worked on a medical image-diagnostics LLM project involving fine-tuning and benchmarking multiple model approaches, and has quant/sales-trading experience building automated pricers for complex options and persuading sales teams to adopt them with ROI-focused metrics.”

“Former Special Assistant at the National Security Council with experience supporting senior federal executives and handling national-security-sensitive information. Helped stand up and standardize operations for a large-scale refugee resettlement effort (60,000 people), creating an executive-driven exception/escalation process and partnering with dev and data teams to prioritize agile sprint work and improve reporting accuracy.”

“P&G operator who is also building and selling an AI receptionist (voice agent) SaaS for healthcare/service clinics, using EHR + calendar API compatibility to target accounts and letting the Voice AI run parts of the demo to prove value. Has already closed and deployed to two clients in the last two months, with production impact via reduced front-desk overhead and automated scheduling/FAQs, and brings a structured, scalable deployment/process mindset from global WMS rollouts.”

Sabrina Sain

Screened

Junior Management Consultant specializing in strategy, org design, and private equity due diligence

New York, NY2y exp

“Bain consultant with medtech spin-off/NewCo operating model experience, driving cross-functional workflow optimization, headcount planning, and cost reduction through scenario modeling and executive alignment. Currently on externship at Mediamint, where they built a centralized, standardized pitch-collateral repository and operating cadence to reduce exec time spent on decks and improve GTM consistency.”

“Google backend engineer with strong experience in large-scale identity, membership, and access-control systems. Notable work includes reconciling customer IDs across 2B+ roster records and leading a 0-to-1 Drive sharing feature to classify external users as crossover members, with a strong emphasis on correctness, rollout safety, and low-latency service design.”

Jingfei Xu

Screened

Intern/Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cloud-based systems

Mountain View, CA0y exp

“Embedded/robotics software engineer with Hyundai Motors experience who owned an AI-driven perception validation pipeline using a Transformer-based approach to generate stable synthetic in-cabin audio for autonomy/ASR testing, cutting downstream testing time by 50%+. Has hands-on ROS integration (IMU sensor streaming, inference, control nodes), MQTT-based distributed messaging, and cloud/container deployment experience (Docker, Node/Express, AWS, CI/CD).”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered medical scribe that generates structured clinical visit summaries using RAG, strict JSON schemas, and post-generation validation to reduce hallucinations. Experienced in making LLM workflows deterministic and observable (structured logging/metrics/tracing) and in evaluation-driven iteration with metrics like schema pass rate and edit rate; collaborated closely with clinicians and policy stakeholders at Scale AI to drive adoption.”

“Data engineer focused on building and operating reliable Airflow-orchestrated pipelines into BigQuery, including daily billing ingestion (~1GB/day) and ad platform (Facebook/LinkedIn) data collection. Implemented end-to-end data quality checks plus org-wide incident response automation integrating PagerDuty, Slack, and Jira, and has experience executing large backfills (4–5TB) via time-window batching.”