Sebastian "Sebo" Diaz
sebodiaz@csail.mit.edu
I am a MIT CSAIL & RLE PhD student working under Prof. Elfar Adalsteinsson and Prof. Polina Golland.
Research Interests:
- Incentivizing generalization beyond the training (source) distribution.
- Exploring synthetic data for improved or otherwise unattainable representations.
- Representation learning and optimal use of embeddings.
- Exploiting numerical structure to enhance algorithms.
Funding:
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
- MathWorks Fellowship
- MIT SoE Distinguished Engineer Fellowship
Education: I received my B.S. from the University of Arizona in 2023 where I was fortunate to be mentored by Prof. Arthur Gmitro, Prof. Jennifer Barton, and Prof. Nan-kuei Chen.