I'm Laurence, I host hackathons at McGill University, and work on robotics & ML research projects.
- Developing coding evals for LLMs at the Rootly (YC S21) AI Lab (with workshop papers at ACL 2025 and NeurIPS 2025)
- Researching perception and planning for robots (contributing to reserach at labs at McGill, Mila and UBC)
- Hosting workshops and reading group meetups on topics in machine learning
- Building vision & ML models for space robotics at MDA Space
- Itegrating LLM evals at Groq
- Designing visualization tools and models to evaluate drone motor performance at ACSL, Japan's largest industrial drone manufacturer
- Core API development at early-stage startups
- Organizing hackathons since 2018 (prev. Sponsorship Lead at @hackmcgill)
- Researching efficient machine learning (co-authored workshop paper at ICML 2024 on state space model distillation)
- I compiled my work, projects and interests at laurenceliang.github.io
- I'm also active on LinkedIn and Twitter
- Please feel free to reach out via email! laurence.liang [at] mail.mcgill.ca