Eugenie Y. Lai

I am a Research Engineer at SystemsResearch@Google. My current work focuses on scalable LLM inference and intelligent document processing.

I recently completed my PhD in the Data Systems Group at MIT CSAIL, advised by Prof. Michael Cafarella. My PhD work developed systems for automating and optimizing data-to-insight pipelines, spanning tabular data transformation, explainable discretization, and AI systems for end-to-end data analysis. During my undergraduate studies, I worked with Prof. Rachel Pottinger in the Data Management and Mining Lab at the University of British Columbia.

News

2026
Joined SystemsResearch@Google as a Research Engineer.
2026
Defended and graduated from the MIT Data Systems Group.
2026
KramaBench appeared at ICLR 2026, and Interpretable Attribute Discretization appeared in PACMMOD.
2025
Auto-Prep, our bottom-up data preparation work, and SeerCuts were published.
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Selected Publications

Publications and theses currently listed on Google Scholar, newest first. * indicates equal contribution.

Beyond research

I write a blog about research, graduate school, and learning.