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London, England, United Kingdom

Integrating Three Models of (Human) Cognition. Investigated how the human brain implements goal-directed behavior by attempting to unify perspectives from predictive processing a global neuronal workspace frameworks, with the motivation of eventually being able to use such a perspective to constrain expectations about how advanced artificial neural networks might implement similar behaviors.Grokking the Intentional Stance. Inquired into how we can model agency (in the context of AI) using Dennett’s ‘intentional stance.’

Awarded grant from Open Philanthropy to support self-study topics in technical AI safety and alignment for three months.Investigated cases for catastrophic risk from advanced AI systems, timelines, takeoff speeds, etc. Self-taught reinforcement learning; implemented a few classic RL algorithms, gaining familiarity with the various kinds (and relative advantages) of different RL algorithms.

Assisted in management of the outsourcing of the implementation of an AI recommendation system for targeted ads.

New Haven, Ct

Conducted research in natural language processing under the supervision of Professor Dragomir Radev in the Language, Information, and Learning at Yale (LILY) lab. Designed and coded machine learning models, with a focus on semantic parsing tasks. Developed and tested new “Temporal Capsule Net” architecture on Visual QA tasks. Mentored other researchers in applying Transformer architecture to text-to-SQL tasks.

Applied Transformer architecture to language modeling problem for fine-tuning on downstream tasks. Scraped and analyzed initial data for the lab’s new “BioNLP” project in conjunction with the Yale School of Medicine.

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Managed 25 volleyball referees, scheduled shifts. Also refereed games for intramural football,basketball and volleyball.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Applied Mathematics

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Summer Program - classes in Real Analysis and Stochastic Processes

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