Pragmatic AI Evals: Beyond Vendor Promises

Stella Liu is an AI Evaluation practitioner and researcher, specializing in frameworks for large language models and AI-powered products.

Since 2023, she has led real-world AI evaluation projects in EdTech, where she established the first AI product evaluation framework for Higher Education and continues to advance research on the safe and responsible use of AI. Her work combines academic rigor with hands-on product experience, bringing proven evaluation methods into both enterprise and educational contexts.

Earlier in her career, Stella worked at Shopify and Carvana, where she built large-scale data-driven automation systems that powered product innovation and operational efficiency at scale.

Stella also writes an AI Evals newsletter on Substack: https://datasciencexai.substack.com/

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Amy Chen is co-founder of AI Evals & Analytics and an AI partner helping companies with AI engineering, product development, and go-to-market strategy. With over 10 years of experience spanning data science, product management, ML engineering, and GTM, she brings versatile expertise to startups at every stage.

She is Top 1% Mentor in AI/ML Engineering and mentored over 300 data scientists and analysts on ADPList. She posts regularly about AI and data science on LinkedIn and has over 9.6k followers.

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