Some news articles covering projects I’ve worked on.
Other News and Updates
- Dec 2025: Graduated with PhD from MIT BCS.
- Oct 2025: Fast controlled generation from language models with adaptive weighted rejection sampling wins Outstanding Paper Award at COLM in Montreal, QC.
- May 2025: Started an internship with Apple’s special projects group in the Cupertino office.
- Apr 2025: Invited research talk on probabilistic inference approaches to language model programming at UT Austin CompLing.
- Feb 2025: Syntactic and semantic control of large language models via sequential Monte Carlo selected for Oral Presentation at ICLR conference in Singapore.
- Dec 2024: We presented the EWoK project at Google DeepMind.
- Dec 2024: Models can and should embrace the communicative nature of human-generated math presented at NeurIPS Workshop on Mathematical Reasoning and AI in Vancouver, BC.
- Nov 2024: Initial release of the decoding library.
- Oct 2024: Invited research talks on Neurosymbolic AI at Microsoft Research and Pitt NLP Seminar.
- Sept 2024: Co-organizer for SFI working group on Assessing Representation in Minds and Artificial Systems in Santa Fe, NM.
- Aug 2024: Program chair for ACL workshop on Natural Language Reasoning and Structured Explanations in Bangkok, Thailand.
- June 2024: Joined Project Numina as a contributor, facilitating the release of the models, datasets, and code used to win the first AIMO progress prize.
- May 2024: Elements of World Knowledge (EWOK): A cognition-inspired framework for evaluating basic world knowledge in language models released alongside the companion open-source software library and dataset.
- May 2024: Student organizer for NSF workshop on New Horizons in Language Science: Large Language Models, Language Structure, and the Cognitive and Neural Basis of Language in Arlington, VA.
- Apr 2024: Modeling uncertainty in semantic parsing presented at the New England NLP Meeting in Providence, RI.
- Apr 2024: Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
- Apr 2024: Log probability scores provide a closer match to human plausibility judgments than prompt-based evaluations presented at the SouthNLP symposium in Atlanta, GA.
- Dec 2023: Released the first version of CFG-guided generation for the open-source Outlines library.
- Dec 2023: LINC: a neurosymbolic approach for logical reasoning by combining language models with first-order logic provers wins Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP conference in Singapore.
- Dec 2023: StarCoder: may the source be with you! published at TMLR following the release of the StarCoder model series.
- Aug 2023: Santa Fe Institute summer program on intelligence and representation at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, UK.
- July 2023: Evaluating statistical language models as pragmatic reasoners presented at CogSci in Sydney, Australia, and the ACL NLRSE workshop in Toronto, ON.
- May 2023: BigCode evaluation harness released, enabling secure containerized evaluation of code generation language models.
- Nov 2022: Convergent representations of computer programs in human and artificial neural networks presented at NeurIPS conference in New Orleans, LA.
- Sept 2022: Awarded MIT Presidential Fellowship.
- Sept 2022: Started PhD at MIT BCS.