sofialipkevych

projects

chronology

dated notes, more of a log of my life.

professional

feb 2026 – present

ai engineering & robotics (urop) @ mit csail — improbable ai lab

building vision-language-action stacks with fast tactile feedback in sim and on hardware. broadly: how we extend big models into embodied settings where they’re still shaky on spatial understanding and “taste,” and what engineering actually closes that gap.

sept 2025 – present

corporate relations @ hackmit

sponsorships and external communication for HackMIT and Blueprint. part of a team behing the biggest hackathon on the east coast.

mar 2025 – aug 2025

ai / ml engineer, technical team lead @ tune robotics — fr8 cohort 1.0

deep-tech incubator build: post-trained VLA models, optimized for cheap hardware, plus dataset-quality eval tools so training stayed sane and cheap.

aug 2024 – aug 2025

translation infrastructure & tools developer @ mit opencourseware

creates an AI agent powered lecture translation with ElevenLabs; 150+ hours published. along with pdf translation pipelines that preserve math and scientific semantics.

ElevenLabsMIT News

nov 2024 – jun 2025

mit primes student researcher @ yulia’s dream

Linear algebra research in a small team with Ph.D. mentorship: focused on abstract structures and categoty theory. was a good intro for me into abstract mathematics, learned a lot how to generalize, write proofs, and abstract away when thinking about math.

2024 – 2025

operations (co-founder), developer @ uathon

Co-founded Ukraine’s first high-school tech hackathon org: handled fundraising, sponsors, and 50+ participants.

2022 – 2025

applied physics & materials research @ lviv polytechnic & lviv national university

thermocromic semiconductor nanocrystals research; PLA optimization research; also researched my hometown's climate (the first one to study city's climate (worked a lot with data)).

2025 – 2029

undergrad student @ massachusetts institute of technology

B.S. computer science & mathematics. relevant classes: calculus 2, linear algebra, programming, neuroscience intro, physcis: mechanics and E&M.

personal

languages

English, Ukrainian, Russian, and German (more in the works, tbu)...

through high school in ukraine

science competitions and research, and building things with friends.

highlights of competitions & awards

Emergent Ventures grantee, 1 place ISEF nationals (materials science), silver medal climate science olympiad, gold medal Taiwan international invention expo.