Kushal Thaman
I’m Kushal (pronounced /kʊʃəl/), an undergrad at Stanford studying Computer Science. Previously, I worked on the science of neural network training at STAIR, adversarial attacks at CAIS, and now think about in-context learning & build new LM architectures at Stanford NLP, supervised by Prof. Chris Manning and Prof. Chris Potts.
In my spare time, I like to do photography to make the world feel a bit more mythic, swim, think about culture & endogenous growth theory, and counter my perpetual onism by hiking mountains.
Reach out if you’d like to chat about anything you think we’d both enjoy!
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Jul 17, 2024 | I have been awarded an Emergent Ventures grant by Tyler Cowen. |
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May 11, 2024 | I presented my co-first author interpretability paper Incidental Polysemanticity as a poster at the Representational Alignment workshop and the Bridging the Gap Between Practice and Theory in Deep Learning (BGPT) workshop at ICLR 2024 in Vienna, Austria. |
Feb 25, 2024 | I presented our paper on Probabilistic Syllable Structure at the 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) at Berkeley, CA. |
Feb 3, 2024 | I am a Teaching Assistant for the course CS21SI: AI for Social Good in Spring 2024. Come hear me talk about RL and unsupervised learning! |
Dec 15, 2023 | First day at the Center for AI Safety, where I’m working on vision adversarial attacks with Dan Hendrycks. |
May 21, 2022 | I have been awarded the Atlas Fellowship. |
Jul 1, 2021 | I attended the national orientation & selection olympiad camp for the International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA), organized by HBCSE. |
May 28, 2021 | I was part of the five person team that represented India at the International Young Physicists’ Tournament (IYPT). |
Dec 17, 2020 | I won the Honorable Mention award at the International Physics Olympiad (which was held as a distributed event due to COVID-19). |
Jun 16, 2019 | I achieved national rank 5 in Physics at the STEMS exam and subsequently attended their camp on Physics, Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at the Chennai Mathematical Institute. |