Lily Xu
Incoming Assistant Professor at University of Oxford
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLily Xu is an interdisciplinary computer scientist and educator transitioning to incoming assistant professor at Columbia University's IEOR, starting fall 2025, while continuing her postdoctoral work at Oxford. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard University and a BS in CS with a Spanish minor from Dartmouth College, reflecting a blend of deep theory and global perspective. Her research spans economics, nature recovery, and computational methods, with current work at Oxford's Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery advised by Alex Teytelboym. With about a decade of experience including a software engineering internship at Google, she aims to reduce environmental impact while enhancing societal outcomes. Based in Oxford, England, she combines rigorous scholarship with practical software development experience and a passion for cross-disciplinary collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Spanish (minor), Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Spanish (minor) at Dartmouth CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Harvard University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
google-cloud5
docker5
iaas4
near4
fuel4
dfinity4
obsolete2
abstraction2
graph2
high-performance1
ecosystem1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lily-x/PAWS-public
Jun 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
lily-x/dual-mandate
Sep 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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