RS
About
Pluridisciplinary scientist, multicultural adventurer. I have a broad curiosity for all natural and cultural phenomena. My current research intertwines trajectory analysis, the physics of collective behavior, and emergent capabilities of Large Language Models.
Work Experience
Cornell UniversityRemote
2023 - now
Research Associate
Lost in Transformation: trajectory and geometry in the transformer architecture of LLMs
University of Colorado Boulder
2017 - 2023
Posdoctoral Associate
Swarms, flocks, crowds: the physics of animal collective behavior
Education
Yale University
2010 - 2017
Ph.D. Applied Physics
Ecole Polytechnique
2007 - 2010
Master of Engineering, Science and Technology
Skills
Physics
Diffusion
Behavior Analysis
Matlab
Python
Computer Vision
ML
LLM
Projects
LLM trajectory extrapolation
arxiv.orgabs/2402.00795
LLMs for in-context learning of dynamical systems
LLM
Py
LLaMA
ICML
tiny-ghosts
Vision Transformers for detection of firefly flashes in noisy images
ViT
Py
LLaVA
finetuning
firefleye-net
training set and neural networks for accurate localization of firefly flashes in natural images and movie frames
ML
Matlab
oorb
calibration-free 3D reconstruction of firefly swarms from 360-degree cameras
Matlab
3D
flash pattern classifier
biorxiv.orgcontent/10.1101/2023.03.08.531653
RNNs for species identification from firefly flash patterns
RNN
Py
peer-reviewed
JS
SciComm
SonicPi
HTML
HTML
SciComm
CSS
Physics
scholar.google.comcitations?user=9aaGkZQAAAAJ&hl=en
Academic research in biophysics, random walks, emergent phenomena
Soft Matter
Stochasticity
Behavior
Emergence
Trajectories