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I am a PhD candidate in applied mathematics at UC Davis currently working in the LUKA lab under Prof. Muhao Chen. I am also a research intern at the MBZUAI Institute for Foundation Models.

Broadly speaking I am interested in (a) improving the statistical and computational efficiency of LLMs / MLLMs (b) understanding how LLMs / MLLMs “think”, and (c) the learning dynamics of training large models.

I have worked in industry as a research & ML engineer building generative foundation models for video, and I helped establish the research efforts at a small R&D startup building efficient algorithms for computer-vision based generative models.

I have previously worked in shock formation for analytic fluid mechanics (partial differential equations). Before that I was in software engineering working on (variously) data-center automation and computer vision.

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