I am a theoretical computer scientist.
🇨🇭 Postdoctoral fellow at the EPFL AI Center, hosted by Thomas Bourgeat, Lénaïc Chizat, Nicolas Flammarion and Viktor Kunčak.
🐳 Researcher at CETI, deciphering sperm whale communication.
🇯🇲 Lecturer at JamCoders, a free summer camp on algorithms for high schoolers in Kingston, Jamaica.
🎓 PhD from UC Berkeley Theory of Computation, advised by Shafi Goldwasser and Avishay Tal. MSc from the Weizmann Institute of Science, advised by Oded Goldreich.
My pronouns are he/him.
Publications
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Description of a Collaborative Sperm Whale Birth and Shifts in Coda Vocal Styles During Key Events
Scientific Reports (to appear)
PhD Dissertation. UC Berkeley, 2025
NeurIPS 2025*Accepted under the title 'A Theory for Worst-Case vs. Average-Case Guarantees for LLMs'; (Oral ) Theoretical Foundations of Foundation Models @ ICML '24, (Oral ) Humans, Algorithmic Decision-Making and Society @ ICML '24
(Oral ) AAAI 2025
In submission
NeurIPS 2023; (Spotlight ) InfoCog @ NeurIPS 2022
EMNLP Findings 2023
(Oral ) NeurIPS 2022
BuildSys 2022; MLSafety @ NeurIPS 2022; RLDM 2022; CEMA 2022
SIAM J. Comput. (2024); FOCS 2020
Comput. Complex. (2021); ITCS 2020
Research Mentorship
- Circle Chen → Meta
- Pranav Muralikrishnan → MS@EPFL
- Annamira O'Toole → MS@EPFL → PhD@ETH
- Chirag Sharma → MS@Berkeley → Scale AI
Teaching
- JamCoders 💚🖤
From 2022 at the University of the West Indies, Mona. - A Mini-Course on Probabilistically Checkable Proofs
2018 Amos de-Shalit Summer School at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
TA'ed:
- CS294-92 Analysis of Boolean Functions
Spring 2020 at UC Berkeley. - Introduction to Property Testing
Fall 2018 at the Weizmann Institute of Science. - Student-led reading of Computational Complexity
Fall 2018 at the Weizmann Institute of Science.