Zili is a Member of Technical Staff at Lotus AI leading the applied research team.
Previously she evaluated LLM-based AI agents at P-1 AI. She graduated from Yale in 2025 with a Ph.D. in astrophysics. For her thesis, she led the science analysis of the Dragonfly Ultrawide Survey, mapping 10,000 square degrees of the northern sky using a custom data pipeline on AWS.
She writes about science. She contributed 18 articles to Astrobites and worked at the Yale Poorvu Center as a Graduate Writing Fellow, offering one-on-one writing consultations and leading workshops.
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Email: zilishenca@gmail.com
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