I’m a PhD Student at UC San Diego dedicated to building AI systems capable of robust decision making and human-like perception. Natural selection had to work with a number of constraints to design the human brain, which may or may not be necessary to include as priors in our machine learning models. I believe a principled yet intuitive approach is the way forward: Determine the biases based on human cognition to bring into today’s best model architectures. Relying on scale alone will not be sufficient to solve issues with robustness, interpretability, and truthfulness, especially in regimes interacting with humans.
I’m currently advised by Prof. Zhiting Hu, and collaborating with Prof. Yilun Du at Harvard. Previously I worked with Prof. Bruno Olshausen at UC Berkeley’s Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, with Prof. Kurt Keutzer at BAIR, and as a founding research scientist at New Theory AI.
Read more about my Publications and Research Interests if you are interested! ~
Apart from research, I like to try new recipes, go on long runs, and read books. Check out my Reading log and Misc obsessions!
