New Berkeley Faculty & World Model Research
keyonV · x · 2026-07-15
The researcher announced they will join UC Berkeley as an assistant professor in summer 2027, affiliated with UCB Statistics and Berkeley EECS.
Prior to this, they will serve as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Data and MIT in the Boston area, and plans to start recruiting PhD students in fall 2027. Their research focuses on: building methods to test and improve the implicit world models of AI systems, making them better align with reality and human understanding.
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