Elizabeth Qiu

Working on multimodality, interpretability, and applications to energy infrastructure. Previously explored computer vision, video editing, and applications to creative fields.

Built Maryland's Claude program from zero to 510+ students through 11 technical events and demos and 36K+ impressions. Engineering, operations, content creation, product, and stakeholder communications.

Model Evaluation for Adobe Home (adobe.com). Engagement Services and Product Engineering team under Global Marketing.

Represented 4,300 students; led pilot programs focusing on engagement and feedback loops. Worked on solving problems in hiring, healthcare, facilities, bylaws, admissions, inaugural town hall, funding, and AI initiatives within a $29M budget. Built communication channels and advocated for students in 100+ conversations.

Led 30 TAs for 1K students in Algorithms; averaging seven-minute response time for 3K+ questions. Operations, communications, conflict mediation, homework/exam review, grading, and lecturing. Recognized by students for Teaching Excellence awards by the College and Computer Science Department - first to win both awards in the same year.

Trade processing and alerts for front and middle-officer traders. Markets Technology team under Investment Banking.

Testing, bug-finding, design, and innovative proposals across core e-commerce modules. Collaborated with QA, product, and software teams.

Operate a hybrid private studio teaching 10 private clients and 200 public students. Focus on individualized piano lessons in performance, technique, repertoire, and theory. Manage curriculum, scheduling, finances, publicity, community relations, and parent communications.

(2019-2022) Attend, consult, speak, and volunteer for 20+ hackathons. Also directed and scaled the largest high school hackathon in Maryland. Led all teams including design, technology, marketing, content creation, sponsorships, government and community relations, operations, and finances. Notably individually closed $189K in sponsorships. Recognized by National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT), Major League Hacking's Top 50, DMV Women in Technology (WiT), and President's Gold Service Award.

Distributed STEM microgrants to teens in US and Canada. First supporter and angel investor for projects before they became YC-backed (Same.dev, Liva AI). Independently researched companies - e.g. 2018-2022: discovered and tracked OpenAI, Anthropic, RunwayML, MosaicML, Palantir, Anduril, Stripe, Figma, Notion, Cohere, etc.

Worked directly with politicians and staffers on campaign activites, carrying out and leading projects from ideation to completion. Fundraised for causes (e.g: women, Ukraine). Had hundreds of conversations with constituents and undecided voters.

Always meeting select founders, do-ers, and builders to help them achieve their goals. Aided 50+ people to navigate college applications, land internships, and get jobs.

Stress tested and evaluated Large Language Models against obfuscated CAPTCHAs at Stanford's TreeHacks.

Consulted the Arlington County, Virginia Government.

Pruned models with Adobe Research at Carnegie Mellon.

Previously an independent fashion/commercial model. Currently on hold.

Co-creator (playwright and actor) in an original short rom-com film.

Drone Detection for Northrop Grumman.

Scheduling application for the American Council for the Blind.

Experimented with content creation, scaling from audience of 0 to 500K+. Currently under a private pseudonym.

Served in the state of Maryland's pilot program for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities to receive a full-time college experience. Worked directly with students and also took Computer Science class notes for the Office of Accessibility and Disability Service.

Built and deployed a roommate-matching system, matching 600+ incoming students (10% of the class) in the month before the university released its official tool.

Founded, led, and scaled the DC developer community from 0 to 800+ members, handling communications, designs, and events.

Harmonies of Pianists Everywhere -- worked on Special Projects on the founding team, bringing together a network of 250+ pianists worldwide. Virtual music compilations during COVID-19.

Learned skills ad-hoc to develop automation and testing for Bay Area e-commerce platform used by 10K+ shoppers.

Built a GitHub bot in a team of four. Implemented tools authentication and user interaction features.

It was so fun, I did it again. This time I also worked in stage/sound crew, led entire group rehearsals, and produced recordings for students to asynchronously practice their pieces.

Worked as rehearsal pianist, teaching and creatively directing for acting wherever music was involved. Covered 30+ pieces.