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I'm a postdoc at
Harvard University, where I participate in the SAFR AI lab led by Seth Neel and Salil Vadhan. I obtained my Ph.D. from
Boston University under the supervision of Ran Canetti in spring of 2024.
My research spans machine learning, AI, and theoretical computer science. My current goal is to help develop the theory of how machine learning really works. For instance, some of my recent work pursues
a better understanding of the phenomenal success of multimodal data in ML. I'm also interested in applied research in AI/ML security and robustness, such as methods for data attribution—which I'll work on at Harvard.
My Ph.D. thesis was in the area of meta-complexity, and in particular, discovered new relationships between the complexity theory of circuit lower bounds and computational learning theory.
Piet Mondrian, The Red Tree, 1908