Justin Chen @justinychen

Postdoc in Theoretical Computer Science at MIT people.csail.mit.edu/justc/ Joined June 2016

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Keyon Vafa @keyonV

2 years ago

New paper: How can you tell if a transformer has the right world model? We trained a transformer to predict directions for NYC taxi rides. The model was good. It could find shortest paths between new points But had it built a map of NYC? We reconstructed its map and found this:

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Kiril Bangachev @BangachevKiril

104 Followers 259 Following Was a tiger. Now a beaver. Like math and AI

Asst. Professor @Rutgers. Previously, privacy researcher @Apple, postdoc at @JohnsHopkins, @PennState, and a PhD student @UWaterloo

Jalaj Upadhyay @jalajupadhyay

906 Followers 427 Following Asst. Professor @Rutgers. Previously, privacy researcher @Apple, postdoc at @JohnsHopkins, @PennState, and a PhD student @UWaterloo

Edith Cohen @inhaleopenair

412 Followers 350 Following

Aparna Gupte @aparna_gupte

66 Followers 96 Following PhD student @ MIT

Fred Zhang @FredZhang0

1K Followers 768 Following @Meta, prev research scientist @GoogleDeepMind, PhD @Berkeley_EECS, DM open

Kai Zheng @kaizhengcs

171 Followers 97 Following Fellow @SimonsInstitute and incoming Member @the_IAS

Ben Workman @BenWorkman03

40 Followers 425 Following

ewin @ewintang

4K Followers 377 Following postdoc in theory, UC Berkeley EECS & Miller Institute (off twitter, find me anywhere else)

Incoming professor @UCBerkeley in EECS and Statistics.

Principal Researcher @ Microsoft Research.

AI & RL. Lecture Notes: https://t.co/bhgL3aKIk0

Dylan Foster 🐢 @canondetortugas

5K Followers 2K Following Incoming professor @UCBerkeley in EECS and Statistics. Principal Researcher @ Microsoft Research. AI & RL. Lecture Notes: https://t.co/bhgL3aKIk0

We build bicycles for the mind — algorithms that enhance rather than replace human capacity. Economists + computer scientists @MIT + @UChicago.

The Bike Shop @bicyclesftmind

78 Followers 62 Following We build bicycles for the mind — algorithms that enhance rather than replace human capacity. Economists + computer scientists @MIT + @UChicago.

Yinhao Dong @yinhao_dong

4 Followers 74 Following

Assistant Professor at @WisconsinCS. Machine learning, privacy, and memorization. Postdoc @uwcse and PhD at Boston University.

Gavin Brown @gavinrbrown1

1K Followers 1K Following Assistant Professor at @WisconsinCS. Machine learning, privacy, and memorization. Postdoc @uwcse and PhD at Boston University.

Kris Ganjam @KrisGanjam

675 Followers 7K Following #Genomics, #Aging, #Neuroscience, #Cancer, #SynBio, #AI

Max Thiessen @maxthiessen_ml

445 Followers 723 Following Postdoc @uni_tue | machine learning theory

Software Engineer • Teaching CS & building communities • Sharing my own thoughts here • Solutions Eng @tiriig_tech @beerooleApp • Program @fikrcamp

Abdishakur @amabdishakur

281 Followers 1K Following Software Engineer • Teaching CS & building communities • Sharing my own thoughts here • Solutions Eng @tiriig_tech @beerooleApp • Program @fikrcamp

Ce Jin @jcvbcn

1K Followers 2K Following

Feralroum @Feralroum16716

17 Followers 349 Following

g @georgedeath

29 Followers 2K Following He who controls the spice controls the universe.

Eva Louise Marie Gabr... @e681554349

10 Followers 7K Following

Leonard Rodman @RodmansAi

207 Followers 2K Following 49k followers on LinkedIn | 41k on YouTube | 6k on Instagram | 6k newsletter subscribers | Get real-life superpowers with AI!! Follow me for the hottest posts!!

Paper Copilot @ ICLR ... @papercopilot

1K Followers 1K Following Tracking what's happening in AI / ML via open statistics (13.39M+ global impressions) Author: @jingyangcarl

Investor @NEA, ML Engineer@startups (General Catalyst and Khosla backed) | Co-author of @Stanford @DSPyOSS | Obsessed with Recursive Self Improvement

Thomas Joshi @thomastjoshi

2K Followers 7K Following Investor @NEA, ML Engineer@startups (General Catalyst and Khosla backed) | Co-author of @Stanford @DSPyOSS | Obsessed with Recursive Self Improvement

CSE PhD @UCSanDiego. prev @berkeley_ai @newtheoryai Structured generative models, world models, ML architecture design

Hansen Lillemark @hansenlillemark

542 Followers 294 Following CSE PhD @UCSanDiego. prev @berkeley_ai @newtheoryai Structured generative models, world models, ML architecture design

Thatchaphol Saranurak @eig

3K Followers 366 Following Assistant Professor at @UMichCSE. I design fast graph algorithms in dynamic/distributed/local settings.

Sanket Shah @sunk8th

294 Followers 1K Following AI Scientist @ Duolingo | Prev: CS PhD @ Harvard

Ramira Iva @IvaRamira

674 Followers 3K Following Eurasia Electro Center ,CEO. I am researcher of space activities in outer space. I create video clips. I write poems.

aab anbe 🪻 @Sundaymood16

135 Followers 3K Following

Shaoyupei @Shaoyupei1

7 Followers 657 Following

Former PhD @ MIT CSAIL. Finding/exploiting patterns in data, especially symmetries. AI4Science. https://t.co/0XcSE5V8S2. Cofounder @bostonsymmetry.

Hannah Lawrence @HLawrenceCS

973 Followers 783 Following Former PhD @ MIT CSAIL. Finding/exploiting patterns in data, especially symmetries. AI4Science. https://t.co/0XcSE5V8S2. Cofounder @bostonsymmetry.

Assistant professor @RiceCompSci
Phd from MIT, EECS
Interested in theoretical computer science, and learning theory

Maryam Aliakbarpour @MAliakbarpour

1K Followers 437 Following Assistant professor @RiceCompSci Phd from MIT, EECS Interested in theoretical computer science, and learning theory

Kimia Hamidieh @kimiahmdh

642 Followers 349 Following PhD student at @MIT_CSAIL, previously @UofT/@VectorInst, @GoogleDeepMind, @MSRNE

Interests: neuroAI, RISC & many cores computing, wikipedian, neuroregeneration ⏤ @theawely@mamot.fr / dav1db@bsky.social

David @theawely

63 Followers 971 Following Interests: neuroAI, RISC & many cores computing, wikipedian, neuroregeneration ⏤ @[email protected] / [email protected]

samuel padula @samuel_padula

179 Followers 4K Following Absorbing

a person, interested in lots of things. Also trying out @sethblumberg@mathstodon.xyz

Seth Blumberg @sethblumberg

196 Followers 2K Following a person, interested in lots of things. Also trying out @[email protected]

Abderahmane @a_jarmouni

47 Followers 2K Following System Software Engineer. 💬: Programming 🤖 Space 🚀 Energy ⚡Economics 💹

Bernardo @Bernardogza

85 Followers 2K Following Fundador de https://t.co/fnvbLVRHOO Tecnología e Ideas.

Pocket @PocketPriors

1K Followers 3K Following

Economist
Postdoctoral Researcher @UCStoneCenter @UChicago
Ph.D. in Economics from @Penn
Formerly: ⚽️ Swiss National Team
#FirstGen

Lucienne N.Y. Disch @luciennedisch

582 Followers 1K Following Economist Postdoctoral Researcher @UCStoneCenter @UChicago Ph.D. in Economics from @Penn Formerly: ⚽️ Swiss National Team #FirstGen

Rufai @iafur

699 Followers 2K Following lafia

Surajit Dasgupta @zephyrzilla

342 Followers 4K Following Staff Research Scientist @servicenow Previously ML, NLP @FactSet | Opinions are my own.

Gerardo Horvilleur @magoghm

1K Followers 2K Following

Arpit Gupta @arpitrage

51K Followers 5K Following In DC Sep-Dec 2026 Associate Professor of Finance, @NYUStern. Finance/Real Estate/Urban newsletter: https://t.co/lWVJvq6vKg.

Varadh Jain @varadh

9K Followers 10K Following @notionhq ∙angel investing ∙ prev founder 🐶 probably petting your dog

Firebrand Dove 🇺�... @DoveFirebrand

229 Followers 3K Following Exasperated civic republican and social democrat.

cybernaut @0x106

580 Followers 5K Following May Your Coffee Kick In Before Reality Does

Nicolas Overloop @noverloop

654 Followers 913 Following Serial fintech founder (NoviCap , Horizon65). Currently building deeptech.

Elliott Ash @ellliottt

6K Followers 3K Following Prof @ETH Zurich: Economics and AI; @cepr_org affiliate (PE). Developing https://t.co/pK9haDXrh1.

David Cai @davidjiyangcai

679 Followers 7K Following MRes/PhD @LSEEcon & @LSEManagement Prev: Pre-Doc @ ETH Zurich (@eth_cle). Undergrad @RiceUniversity

Warthog @warthog_new

121 Followers 1K Following

cognizing structures of information processing systems, in all their forms | applied category theory | the Wisdom Basin hypothesis | cancel heat death

davidad 🎇 @davidad

24K Followers 10K Following cognizing structures of information processing systems, in all their forms | applied category theory | the Wisdom Basin hypothesis | cancel heat death

My mastodon account: @vardi@fediscience.org

Moshe Vardi @vardi

13K Followers 136 Following My mastodon account: @[email protected]

Kiril Bangachev @BangachevKiril

104 Followers 259 Following Was a tiger. Now a beaver. Like math and AI

ex-Member of Technical Staff @ OpenAI | ex-CTO @ Pyte | ex-Researcher @ Microsoft | PhD @ MIT | Gold Medal @ ICPC World Finals | 2 x Gold Medal @ IOI

Ilya Razenshteyn @ilyaraz2

Professor of Computer Science. Works on Theoretical Computer Science, Algorithmic Game Theory, and Multi-Agent Interaction in Markets and Games.

Noam Nisan @noamnisan

1K Followers 353 Following Professor of Computer Science. Works on Theoretical Computer Science, Algorithmic Game Theory, and Multi-Agent Interaction in Markets and Games.

Joan bruna @joanbruna

113 Followers 28 Following

Jalaj Upadhyay @jalajupadhyay

906 Followers 427 Following Asst. Professor @Rutgers. Previously, privacy researcher @Apple, postdoc at @JohnsHopkins, @PennState, and a PhD student @UWaterloo

Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown

461K Followers 374 Following Pi creature caretaker. Contact/faq: https://t.co/brZwdQfdif

Aparna Gupte @aparna_gupte

66 Followers 96 Following PhD student @ MIT

Sariel Har-Peled 🆗 @sarielhp

867 Followers 1 Following Mostly harmless.

Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp

282K Followers 1K Following Host of @dwarkeshpodcast https://t.co/3SXlu7fy6N https://t.co/4DPAxODFYi https://t.co/hQfIWdM1Un

I do math about computers! || phd student @CSDatCMU: complexity, algorithms, crypto, combinatorics || @harvard '22 || he/him || #BlackLivesMatter

Noah Singer @singerng_

339 Followers 299 Following I do math about computers! || phd student @CSDatCMU: complexity, algorithms, crypto, combinatorics || @harvard '22 || he/him || #BlackLivesMatter

Pravesh K. Kothari @praveshkkothari

4K Followers 576 Following Associate Professor @PrincetonCS @Princeton Applied Math (PACM) Research: Theoretical Computer Science

⊰•-•⦑ latent space steward ❦ prompt incanter 𓃹 hacker of matrices ⊞ breaker of markov chains ☣︎ si danger researcher ⚔︎ bt6 ⚕︎ building @LYSIOS ⦒•-•⊱

Pliny the Liberator �... @elder_plinius

254K Followers 1K Following ⊰•-•⦑ latent space steward ❦ prompt incanter 𓃹 hacker of matrices ⊞ breaker of markov chains ☣︎ si danger researcher ⚔︎ bt6 ⚕︎ building @LYSIOS ⦒•-•⊱

Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Mostly posting on https://t.co/4NpA2IL5Va (at-melaniemitchell). More thoughts at https://t.co/nC43NHRozX.

Melanie Mitchell @MelMitchell1

53K Followers 674 Following Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Mostly posting on https://t.co/4NpA2IL5Va (at-melaniemitchell). More thoughts at https://t.co/nC43NHRozX.

asst prof at @gatech_scs
FODSI Postdoctoral Fellow @MIT
PhD from @Berkeley_EECS;
Ex: Microsoft Research, Apple
Apple AI/ML Research Fellow 2023

Abhishek Shetty @AShettyV

651 Followers 2K Following asst prof at @gatech_scs FODSI Postdoctoral Fellow @MIT PhD from @Berkeley_EECS; Ex: Microsoft Research, Apple Apple AI/ML Research Fellow 2023

Associate Professor @Berkeley_EECS. NeurIPS 2026 Program co-Chair. Research on Foundations of ML and AI. Sloan and Schmidt AI2050 fellow.

Nika Haghtalab @nhaghtal

5K Followers 312 Following Associate Professor @Berkeley_EECS. NeurIPS 2026 Program co-Chair. Research on Foundations of ML and AI. Sloan and Schmidt AI2050 fellow.

Fred Zhang @FredZhang0

1K Followers 768 Following @Meta, prev research scientist @GoogleDeepMind, PhD @Berkeley_EECS, DM open

Redwood Research @redwood_ai

5K Followers 6 Following Pioneering threat mitigation and assessment for AI agents.

Discovery Loop @DiscoLoopAI

55K Followers 4 Following Automating discovery to accelerate science and engineering for the world.

Ola Svensson @AlgoSvensson

2K Followers 274 Following Theoretical Computer Science

Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine

368K Followers 616 Following Illuminating math and science. Supported by @SimonsFdn. 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting.

Kai Zheng @kaizhengcs

171 Followers 97 Following Fellow @SimonsInstitute and incoming Member @the_IAS

Solving Machine Learning at Microsoft in New York.
https://t.co/ZpdQV4IsHY pandemic past president.
https://t.co/MkluiHpWF7 makes RL real.
https://t.co/wK8xQaQGwf for thinking out loud.

John Langford @JohnCLangford

11K Followers 60 Following Solving Machine Learning at Microsoft in New York. https://t.co/ZpdQV4IsHY pandemic past president. https://t.co/MkluiHpWF7 makes RL real. https://t.co/wK8xQaQGwf for thinking out loud.

Kai @kaicathyc

24K Followers 115 Following Occasionally here. Currently research @OpenAI.

Ilya Sutskever @ilyasut

938K Followers 3 Following SSI @SSI

Helping the world prepare for powerful AI. Risk assessment @METR_evals (opinions my own). Blogs: Planned Obsolescence (AI), Good Bones (whatever's on my mind).

Ajeya Cotra @ajeya_cotra

29K Followers 505 Following Helping the world prepare for powerful AI. Risk assessment @METR_evals (opinions my own). Blogs: Planned Obsolescence (AI), Good Bones (whatever's on my mind).

John Urschel @JohnCUrschel

68K Followers 603 Following Mathematician. Assistant Professor at MIT Math & Harvard Junior Fellow. Former NFL Offensive Lineman.

Nikhil Srivastava @Knikct

628 Followers 147 Following Berkeley Mathematics, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing

Institute for Respons... @RESI_org

814 Followers 3 Following

Adam Tauman Kalai @adamfungi

3K Followers 92 Following Researcher (and cofounder) of the Institute for Responsible Superintelligence (I̶R̶S̶ RESI) https://t.co/pGAkxyJZ1L

Andrew Gordon Wilson @andrewgwils

42K Followers 1K Following Research Lead @perplexity_ai. Professor of machine learning at NYU Courant.

Professor @ Tsinghua, Founder of https://t.co/3IaQ4CI5W3.
AGI, LLM.
“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”―Einstein

jietang @jietang

78K Followers 468 Following Professor @ Tsinghua, Founder of https://t.co/3IaQ4CI5W3. AGI, LLM. “The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”―Einstein

jacob tsimerman @Jacob_Tsimerman

7K Followers 24 Following

Edith Cohen @inhaleopenair

412 Followers 350 Following

Cryptographer (lattices/post-quantum), Professor @UMichCSE, CS(cientific)O @AlgorandFoundation, PhD @MIT_CSAIL. Previously @gatech_scs. Here I speak for myself.

Chris Peikert @ChrisPeikert

7K Followers 59 Following Cryptographer (lattices/post-quantum), Professor @UMichCSE, CS(cientific)O @AlgorandFoundation, PhD @MIT_CSAIL. Previously @gatech_scs. Here I speak for myself.

idiot. cuda og, harvard val, morgan prize, society of fellows, 1 hilbert problem so far, creating friendly, SAFE, delightful, supergenius ..things @anthropicai

levent @alpoge

53K Followers 230 Following idiot. cuda og, harvard val, morgan prize, society of fellows, 1 hilbert problem so far, creating friendly, SAFE, delightful, supergenius ..things @anthropicai

Assistant professor (of mathematics) at the University of Toronto, visiting Harvard Fall 2026. Forever confused. Algebraic geometry, number theory, etc. He/him.

Daniel Litt @littmath

65K Followers 947 Following Assistant professor (of mathematics) at the University of Toronto, visiting Harvard Fall 2026. Forever confused. Algebraic geometry, number theory, etc. He/him.

Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Quantum information, computation, and cryptography.

Henry Yuen @henryquantum

6K Followers 758 Following Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Quantum information, computation, and cryptography.

Or Zamir @OREAXEAX

603 Followers 189 Following Assistant Professor, department of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University @TelAvivUni Formerly: @the_IAS, @Princeton

Thinking Machines @thinkymachines

185K Followers 1 Following Thinking, beeping, and booping. @tinkerapi

Ryan O'Donnell @BooleanAnalysis

8K Followers 0 Following Videos: https://t.co/vy9r4V6aOZ

Pooya Hatami @Pooyahat

1K Followers 556 Following Associate Professor at OSU, TCS researcher, runner, climber

The Bike Shop @bicyclesftmind

78 Followers 62 Following We build bicycles for the mind — algorithms that enhance rather than replace human capacity. Economists + computer scientists @MIT + @UChicago.

Jared Duker Lichtman @jdlichtman

23K Followers 0 Following szegő assistant professor of mathematics @Stanford

ewin @ewintang

4K Followers 377 Following postdoc in theory, UC Berkeley EECS & Miller Institute (off twitter, find me anywhere else)

Allen Liu @axliu42

251 Followers 23 Following Assistant Professor of CS @NYU_Courant | Foundations of ML

Noah Golowich @GolowichNoah

1K Followers 113 Following Assistant Professor of CS at UT Austin. All posts in my individual capacity.

Adam Block @adam_block66985

1K Followers 115 Following AsstProf@Columbia CS | ML/AI

Dylan Foster 🐢 @canondetortugas

5K Followers 2K Following Incoming professor @UCBerkeley in EECS and Statistics. Principal Researcher @ Microsoft Research. AI & RL. Lecture Notes: https://t.co/bhgL3aKIk0

Prof @the_IAS. On leave @Columbia. Head of Research @a16zcrypto. Wrote Algorithms Illuminated, 20 Lectures on Algorithmic Game Theory, etc.

Tim Roughgarden @Tim_Roughgarden

95K Followers 178 Following Prof @the_IAS. On leave @Columbia. Head of Research @a16zcrypto. Wrote Algorithms Illuminated, 20 Lectures on Algorithmic Game Theory, etc.