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I’m a PhD student in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, advised by Surbhi Goel.

I’m interested in understanding deep learning through mathematical and scientific means.

I did my undergraduate in computer science at Princeton University.

Research

Reliable Abstention under Adversarial Injections: Tight Lower Bounds and New Upper Bounds
EE and Surbhi Goel
Preprint, 2026

Let Me Think! A Long Chain-of-Thought Can Be Worth Exponentially Many Short Ones
Parsa Mirtaheri*, EE*, Samy Jelassi, Eran Malach, and Enric Boix-Adserà
NeurIPS 2025

The Evolution of Statistical Induction Heads: In-Context Learning Markov Chains
EE*, Nikolaos Tsilivis*, Benjamin Edelman, Eran Malach, Surbhi Goel
NeurIPS 2024 | Blog post

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