His work has been supported by a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, an NSF CAREER grant, and through the Simons Collaboration on the Nonperturbative Bootstrap.
Research Experience
Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University, currently on a leave of absence through the 2024/2025 academic year — co-founder of Anthropic.
Background
Theoretical physicist with broad interests in effective field theory, particle physics, cosmology, scattering amplitudes, and the conformal field theory (CFT) bootstrap. Current research uses CFT to learn about quantum gravity via the AdS/CFT correspondence. In recent years, he has also been collaborating with physicists and computer scientists on machine learning research, including scaling laws for neural models and the GPT-3 language model.