MIT PhD Sharut Gupta joins DeepMind; Isola hails her representational alignment defense talk
phillip_isola · x · 2026-10-16
MIT CSAIL professor Phillip Isola highly recommends his student Sharut Gupta's PhD defense talk on neural network representation theory and representational alignment, calling it an 'amazingly clear and deep presentation.'
Gupta announced she has defended her PhD at MIT CSAIL and joined Google DeepMind as a Research Scientist on the RSI team. Her advisors were Phillip Isola and Stefanie Jegelka, with Kaiming He and Tommi Jaakkola on her committee. Both a notable talent move and a high-quality long-form talk for the representation learning community.
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