Chengtai (Richard) Li

hello! i'm a sophomore at UCLA studying data science & statistics and minoring in data science engineering

Data Science @ UCLATop 0.001% Drake ListenerCurrently Unemployed

get to know me a bit more :D

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this past summer: i worked @ rbc as a data engineer intern

i'm always interested in working on new projects—reach out if you have any questions or want to collaborate!

what i'm doing now →

richardli1@g.ucla.edu·LinkedIn·GitHub·Devpost

experiences

DevOps Engineer Intern09 2025 -> Now

UCLA Student Media

Contribute to Bruinwalk, UCLA’s largest course review platform, by developing and deploying new features that enhance user experience and streamline access to over 10,000 professor and course review

PythonDjangoAWS

Data Engineer Intern05 2025 -> 08 2025

RBC Global Asset Management

Data and Innovation team, designed a collaborative filtering recommendation model, improving data discovery and personalization for 500+ internal users

PythonPySparkAlternating Least SquaresJiraConfluence

Undergraduate Researcher09 2024 -> 05 2025

UCLA Bruin Sports Analytics

EDA analysis on "underdogs" in NBA, research on wide receiver blocking effectiveness in NFL

EDAPandasSeabornMatplotlibPytorchTensorflow

Data Engineer Intern07 2024 -> 08 2024

JuHe Data

Backend API development

PHPLaravelLivewireBackend