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, write literary non-fiction, read economic history, play tennis, 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 am fortunate to be 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 work on Probabilistic Syllable Structure at the 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) at Berkeley, CA. Our full paper will be available in the conference proceedings soon. |
| Feb 3, 2024 | I will be 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 | I started working at the Center for AI Safety on vision adversarial attacks with Dan Hendrycks. |
| May 21, 2022 | I am fortunate to be awarded with the Atlas Fellowship. |
| Jul 1, 2021 | I have been selected to attend the national orientation & selection olympiad camp for the International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA), organized by HBCSE. |
| May 28, 2021 | I competed at the International Young Physicists’ Tournament (IYPT) as part of the Indian team. |
| Dec 17, 2020 | I won the Honorable Mention award at the International Physics Olympiad (held as a distributed event due to COVID). |
| 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. |