Scholar
Sean McLeish
Google Scholar ID: kFzOTY8AAAAJ
University of Maryland
Citations & Impact
Citations
209
H-index
5
i10-index
4
Publications
8
Co-authors
11
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published several papers including 'Teaching Pretrained Language Models to Think Deeper with Retrofitted Recurrence', 'Gemstones: A Model Suite for Multi-Faceted Scaling Laws'; received the University of Maryland Dean’s Fellowship (2023), Department prize for the best overall graduating BSc student in Discrete Mathematics (2023), UKMT Gold Award Winner (2019); served as a reviewer for NeurIPS and ICLR.
Research Experience
- Summer 2025, Applied Research Intern at Capital One; Spring 2025, participated in G Research's Quant Finance program; Summer 2022, intern at Goldman Sachs; Spring 2021, also an intern at Goldman Sachs.
Education
- Graduated from the University of Warwick in 2023 with a first-class BSc (Hons) in Discrete Mathematics; currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, advised by Tom Goldstein.
Background
- Currently a third-year PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, focusing on algorithmic reasoning and language modeling.
Miscellany
- Contact information: Email smcleish [ at ] umd [dot] edu; Office address Iribe Center, Office 2116, 8125 Paint Branch Dr, College Park, MD 20742.
