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Nicholas Boffi is an assistant professor in the ML Department at Carnegie Mellon. Before coming to CMU, Nicholas got his PhD in Applied Mathematics at Harvard.​​ Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platfo...

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Will Brown is a research lead at Prime Intellect and the creator of the Verifiers library. Before coming to Prime Intellect, Will was a researcher at Morgan Stanley. He got his PhD in CS at Columbia.​​ Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that...

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Sharon Zhou is the VP of AI at AMD and the former CEO of Lamini. Before founding Lamini, she was a PhD student at Stanford's CS Department, co-advised by Stefano Ermon and Andrew Ng.​​ Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industr...

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Songlin Yang is a PhD student at MIT CSAIL and the first-author of the flash linear attention library. She has first-authored papers that have been accepted to top conferences, including ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS. In addition to research, she helped organize the virtual seminar series and also helps lead the flash linear attention discord community. If you'd like to reach out, please email her a...

Yifei Wang is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT CSAIL. He recently had 3 papers accepted to ICML 2025, including his paper, "Beyond Matryoshka: Revisiting Sparse Coding for Adaptive Representation", which was an oral paper. Before coming to MIT for his postdoc, Yifei got his undergraduate and PhD degrees at Peking University.​​ Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional re...

Jaeyeon Kim is a PhD student at Harvard, studying Computer Science. He also first-authored the research paper titled "Train for the Worst, Plan for the Best: Understanding Token Ordering in Masked Diffusions", which was one of six papers that won the ICML 2025 Outstanding Paper Award out of 12,000 papers that were submitted to the conference. If you'd like to reach out, please email...

Ameet Talwalkar is an associate professor at CMU's ML Department and the Chief Scientist at Datadog. He's also been a venture partner at Amplify, the co-founder of Determined AI, which was acquired by HP, and an assistant professor at UCLA. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at talwalkar@cmu.edu.​​ Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and eng...

Yilun Du is an assistant professor at Harvard and a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind. Before coming to Harvard, Yilun got his PhD in EECS at MIT, was a research fellow at OpenAI, and was a visiting researcher at Facebook AI Research. He also got a gold medal in the International Biology Olympiad. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at yilundu@mit.edu.​​ Delta Institute (de...