Michael Li
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I'm Michael Li
Student @ Columbia University

I am a Columbia QMSS graduate student with a background in economics and computer science. I focus on venture capital, growth equity, and private equity, using quantitative analysis to evaluate markets, business models, and growth opportunities.

At 3Q Investment Partners, I support three live PE transactions through LBO analysis, valuation, diligence, and AI-enabled investment materials. At Ionian Pine Partners, I combined fieldwork with AI-assisted research on a 150-building NYC portfolio. Earlier roles at CICC and Haitong Securities covered TMT IPO valuation, financial diligence, and fixed-income research. I build AI workflows for investment research, diligence, and data collection. I am looking for full-time opportunities in venture capital, growth equity, and private equity.

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LLM Evaluation Pipeline for Robust QA

LLM Evaluation Pipeline for Robust QA
LLM Evaluation

Designed an end-to-end LLM evaluation pipeline for noisy QA inputs: prompt repair, multi-model benchmarking, automated metrics, and error analysis to quantify robustness and deployment risk.
COVID-19 Chest X-Ray Classification with Deep Learning

COVID-19 Chest X-Ray Classification with Deep Learning
Deep Learning

Built and compared six CNN architectures (custom and transfer learning) to classify chest X-rays as COVID-19, Normal, or Viral Pneumonia — achieving 95.7% accuracy and 0.99 AUC.
Natural Language Processing for Student Rating Prediction

Natural Language Processing for Student Rating Prediction
NLP

How do students really think about their professors? I used NLP on 20k+ RateMyProfessor reviews to predict star ratings from the text — and got accuracy up to ~69%.
Wave Height Prediction — Surf Vacation Planner

Wave Height Prediction — Surf Vacation Planner
Time Series

A time-series forecasting app that predicts ocean wave heights using Facebook Prophet and NOAA buoy data, helping surfers find optimal locations and dates for their next trip.
Blog / Journal

Here are my most recent blogs.

My experience with OpenClaw
Latest entry

A series-style journal about using OpenClaw in practice — safety, creativity, comparisons, cost, and deployment thoughts.

openclaw journal series
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