I'm a machine learning engineer and researcher. Currently, I'm a final-year PhD candidate (and former Fulbright Research Fellow) with Ryan Cotterell's NLP lab at ETH Zürich. I'm interested in developing and using interpretability methods to understand, control, and improve safety, post-training, and reasoning capabilities of language models. During my PhD, I learned a lot from two research scientist internships: one with the pretraining team at Cohere, and one with the LLM team at Bloomberg AI. Before my PhD, I worked as a machine learning engineer at Flatiron Health, where I developed machine learning systems to unlock patient value in real-world cancer data. I'm interested in bridging research and engineering to translate cool ML research into useful, robust tools and products.
Check out my publications and projects.
I like to adventure, journal, play tennis, and sing with friends!
Say hello! Feel free to contact me at kevin [underscore] du [at] alumni [dot] brown [dot] edu.