Monica Lama

About

I build machine learning systems at the intersection of research, large language models, and quantitative finance. Currently pursuing a BSE in Artificial Intelligence (minor in Mathematics) at Penn Engineering, with a concurrent MBA in Quantitative Finance from Wharton.

Education

UPenn Engineering

BSE, Artificial Intelligence · Math minor · graduating May 2027

Wharton

MBA, Quantitative Finance · graduating May 2028

AI Engineering Intern, Suits

Helping build the AI tooling for an early-stage startup's platform. Focused on agentic AI and LangGraph-based workflows, combining AI engineering with product-focused development to ship intelligent features.

LangGraph · Agentic AI · Product Engineering

LLM Research, University of Pennsylvania

Researcher under Prof. Chris Callison-Burch. Co-published a paper demonstrating positive transfer on dense image caption training for vision-language models. Lead backend development for large-scale data annotation and model training pipelines.

Python · PyTorch · Qdrant · VLM · Fine-tuning

Crypt0nest.io

AI/ML R&D intern. Built LSTM & Transformer pipelines for crypto asset modeling — MAPE ↓15%, F1 ↑12%. Multi-agent trading architecture with Kafka & LangGraph.

LSTM · Transformers · Kafka

Stock Prediction

Multimodal network predicting stock returns from price features + FinBERT sentiment.

Dense Captioning Toolkit

Scalable pipelines for training and evaluating dense image captioning models across scientific and cultural visuals.

PyTorch · Multimodal · Qdrant

Superintendencia de Bancos

Software intern at the Dominican Republic's central banking regulator. Automated macroeconomic data processing; built time-series forecasting for risk assessment.

Python · SQL · Time-series

Skills

Organizations

AI @ Penn

Founding member · President of Outreach

Penn Quantum Computing Club

Competitive Programming @ Penn

Outside of work

Private pilot · Poker · Marathon running · Triathlons · Baking · Ceramics

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