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Yiming Li

Toronto,Canada

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

AI Engineer

Alagora (EdTech Start-up)
Hamilton, Canada
05.2025 - Current
  • Co-led a 3-person AI team developing an automated grading pipeline for business case-study reports, slashing professor grading time from approximately 30 hours to under 8; the system generates structured per-rubric scores and feedback, stored in PostgreSQL, and editable via instructor controls
  • Designed a modular multi-agent architecture with LangChain, featuring callable Python modules for rubric parsing, case retrieval, and submission analysis; enforced schema-controlled prompts and outputs, with instructor edits supported through a Flask API and React frontend
  • Built differentiated document pipelines: chunked and indexed case files into FAISS using sentence embeddings for efficient retrieval-augmented prompts, while preserving full student submissions for holistic evaluation—reducing token usage by approximately 60% without compromising
  • Engineered rubric-to-principle conversion logic, transforming criteria into JSON rules; each principle triggers targeted prompts to compare submission arguments against case context, producing per-principle scores and justifications for faculty review and optional revisions

Teaching Assistant

University of Toronto Education Center
Toronto, Canada
05.2024 - 08.2024
  • Course: Cloud-Based Data Analytics
  • Guided 101 students on using Spark on the Databricks and data retrieving and transferring on the Azure cloud platform
  • Held weekly office hours for 25 ML-Project Teams, resulting in a 5% increase in final project grade

Research Assistant

Rotman School of Management - University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
09.2022 - 04.2024
  • Supervised by Professor Kim (Accounting Area)
  • Automated extraction of director biographies and firm expertise needs from 15,000+ SEC annual & proxy filings covering 1,000+ companies, replacing manual parsing workflows
  • Designed a Multi-Agent LLM workflow that classified directors’ functional and experiential expertise and matched it to company needs with about 92% precision, cutting manual labeling time by roughly 85%
  • Delivered a clean longitudinal dataset now used in empirical studies on board-expertise alignment and firm performance

Financial Analyst Intern In Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) Team

CITIC Securities Company
Beijing, China
05.2022 - 08.2022
  • Gathered and analyzed financial data across 30+ cities using the firm’s bond system; created visual reports and decks that enhanced communication and accelerated team review workflows by ~20%
  • Assisted senior analysts in conducting in-depth analysis of 34 financial metrics, applying clustering techniques (DBSCAN) to predict ABS distribution patterns, aiding in strategic decision-making
  • Built automated web-scraping scripts from Python to extract bidding scope data from 24 platforms and 19 companies, reducing manual research time and improving data freshness for the team

Education

Master of Engineering - Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
05.2025

Bachelor of Science - Statistics and Economics

University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
05.2023

Skills

  • Programming: Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, QuantLib), SQL (PostgreSQL, Snowflake), JavaScript/TypeScript (React, Node), R (tidyverse), Bash / VBA
  • Tools & Platforms: Excel (Power Query, Pivot Tables), Power BI, Tableau, AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda), Azure, Docker, Git/GitHub, Bloomberg Terminal, Capital IQ, Jira/Confluence
  • Certifications: IBM Data Science Professional, AWS Cloud Technical Essentials, Oracle Database Administration

Projects

Bank Transaction System (Ledger Simulator), Modelled core retail-bank workflows in a React + TypeScript Frontend and Express/PostgreSQL Backend: secure auth, deposits/withdrawals, intra-account transfers, and paginated ledger views, Containerised the stack (Docker + Compose) with one-command spin-up, giving Professor a Two-Minute interactive Demo and holding team meeting weekly demonstrating best-practice CI/CD for finance-grade software.

Timeline

AI Engineer

Alagora (EdTech Start-up)
05.2025 - Current

Teaching Assistant

University of Toronto Education Center
05.2024 - 08.2024

Research Assistant

Rotman School of Management - University of Toronto
09.2022 - 04.2024

Financial Analyst Intern In Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) Team

CITIC Securities Company
05.2022 - 08.2022

Master of Engineering - Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Toronto

Bachelor of Science - Statistics and Economics

University of British Columbia
Yiming Li