Published 'All models are wrong, some are useful: Model Selection with Limited Labels', accepted to AISTATS 2025. Another paper, 'Turning Up the Heat: Min-p Sampling for Creative and Coherent LLM Outputs', was accepted to ICLR 2025.
Research Experience
Currently a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind working on agentic LLMs. Previously, a Researcher (Research Scientist) at Midjourney for a year. Worked as a software engineer at Google (YouTube Monetization) and as a performance research engineer at DeepMind for a year in 2016/17.
Education
Obtained a DPhil (PhD) from the University of Oxford in the OATML group and as a student in the AIMS CDT program, supervised by Prof Yarin Gal.
Background
Research interests include information theory and its applications, information bottlenecks, and active learning using Bayesian deep learning, uncertainty quantification. Also interested in AI ethics and AI safety.
Miscellany
Originally from Romania, grew up in Southern Germany. Twitter handle @blackhc.