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About Dai Le

Dai Le is a software developer, frontier-model evaluation specialist, and biological scientist based in Corpus Christi, Texas. His current technical work includes designing and evaluating challenging scientific and software-engineering tasks for advanced AI models and coding agents. He has an MS in Computer Science from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and a PhD in Biological Sciences from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

Corpus Christi, Texas

Professional background

Software development, AI model evaluation, and scientific work through dailephd LLC.

Dai works across software development, frontier-model evaluation and benchmark design, biological research, and scientific computing. His AI work focuses on designing, reviewing, and stress-testing scientific and technical evaluations for advanced models and coding agents, including task specifications, evidence design, scoring and verification, adversarial testing, difficulty calibration, and failure analysis. His research background includes bacterial physiology, antibiotic response, drug-target kinetics, proton motive force, efflux-mediated drug resistance, gene expression under stress, retinal developmental biology, retinal pigment epithelium polarity, Notch signaling, and retinal axon growth.

Research background

Bacterial physiology at Emory University and retinal developmental biology at KAIST.

Bacterial physiology - Emory University

At Emory University, Dai worked on quantitative bacterial physiology and antibiotic-response research involving E. coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. His work focused on how bacterial physiological state affects chemical and antibiotic stress response, including protonophore-mediated dissipation of proton motive force, efflux-mediated feedback, intracellular drug-target kinetics, and population-level variability.

  • Bacterial physiology
  • Antibiotic response
  • Proton motive force
  • Efflux pumps
  • Drug-target kinetics

Retinal developmental biology - KAIST

At KAIST, Dai worked on mouse retinal developmental biology, retinal pigment epithelium polarity, ESCRT-mediated protein trafficking, Notch signaling, retinal progenitor regulation, and Vax1-mediated retinal axon growth.

  • Retinal developmental biology
  • Retinal pigment epithelium
  • Notch signaling
  • Retinal axon growth

AI model evaluation and computing

Frontier-model evaluation, benchmark design, scientific reasoning, and AI-assisted software workflows.

Dai works on frontier-model evaluation and benchmark design across scientific, technical, and software-engineering domains. His work includes designing and stress-testing research-level evaluation tasks, defining rubrics and acceptance criteria, validating scientific and quantitative reasoning, analyzing model and agent failure modes, and calibrating tasks to distinguish genuine reasoning from shortcuts or superficial success. He also develops software tools and workflows for AI-assisted engineering and scientific computing.

Education

MS in Computer Science

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

2023 - 2025

PhD in Biological Sciences

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

2010 - 2016

BS in Biology

Hanoi University of Science, Vietnam National University-Hanoi

2006 - 2010