Hey, I’m Sharan. I’m currently a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge through the
AI4ER CDT. For the past one and a half years I was a research assistant
at the University of Edinburgh, where I looked at the health effects of exposure to air pollution. Practically this involved
a lot of work with causal discovery algorithms and targeted causal learning. My current broad research-goals are to build AI-based
tools to accelerate science, specially in the domains of the physical sciences and environmental risk. I'm interested in representation
learning, interpretability and language models.
I have a BSc in CS + Maths from Edinburgh and an MSc in Stats from Imperial College London.
Both my Bachelor’s and Master’s theses were on causal discovery with time series –
the former an application and the latter on hyperparameter tuning and benchmarking.
I also spend a lot of time thinking about meditation, AI safety, whatever movie I watched yesterday,
and how much I miss Scottish tap water, so definitely reach out if you want to talk about any of those (or perhaps about research, I guess). You can do that by
email or through the links below.