Zachary Lee

Software Engineer & AI Researcher

Computer Science & Statistics student at UIUC focused on AI research, graph-based reinforcement learning, and scalable systems. I like building things that ship, from RL platforms and developer tooling to full-stack products.

Zachary Lee

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Experience

Shopify

Software Engineer Intern, New York, NY (Sep. 2026, Incoming)

Joining the engineering team this fall.

NASA

Software Engineer Intern, Merritt Island, FL (Jan. 2026 to May 2026)

Built real-time VR simulation tools the Artemis team uses to plan and rehearse lunar missions.

Enova International

Software Engineer Intern, Chicago, IL (Jun. 2026 to Present)

Building an AI service that figures out why software builds fail and posts the likely cause to Slack.

Air Force Research Laboratory

Software Engineer Intern, Rome, NY (Jun. 2025 to Aug. 2025)

Built a reinforcement learning system that finds smart routes through adversarial networks.

Companions Journeying Together

Software Engineer Intern, Chicago, IL (Feb. 2025 to May 2025)

Made audio-story delivery faster and more reliable for thousands of families.

Capa

Founding Engineer, Remote, USA (Nov. 2024 to Present)

Built the live GPS tracking and mapping platform behind a fleet of LED advertising screens.

Projects & Research

FIRM

Research, Algoverse

A toolkit for measuring and reducing bias in large language models. Accepted at BlackboxNLP @ EMNLP 2025.

LLM Annotation Pipeline

Research, UIUC Kang Lab

A way to label data accurately using mostly AI and far fewer human labels.

LeData

Project, NASA Space Apps Global Nominee

A concept for running datacenters in space, with AI scheduling tasks across satellites. Named a Global Nominee out of 9,000+ submissions.

Project Echoridge

Project

Turns a plain-English question into a ranked list of business leads with AI-scored fit.

Algobets

Project

An esports analytics platform that predicts match outcomes and player stats.


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