Samy Jelassi

I am a Research Fellow at the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (CMSA) at Harvard University. My hosts are Boaz Barak and Sham Kakade.

I am working on problems related to large language models, spanning problems from creation and optimization of architectures to length generalization. Previously, my PhD thesis focused on understanding the implicit bias induced by optimization algorithms and architectural choices.

Prior to coming to Harvard, I did my PhD at Princeton University advised by Boris Hanin. During that time, I interned at Facebook AI Research, Google Deepmind and Google Research. And before that, I undergraduated at Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon in France.