In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes.

Herbert Simon

Sayan Ghosh

PhD Candidate
University of Southern California

I am currently a PhD candidate at USC NLP, advised by Xiang Ren.Previously, I was a research engineer at ASAPP. I studied Math and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, where I was fortunate to be advised by David Jurgens and Joyce Chai. I worked on several projects in areas ranging from pragmatics, sociolinguistics, network theory, and bias/fairness.

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Here is my current CV.

Email: ghoshsay@usc.edu

Research

I am driven by the exciting potential of LLMs in transformative applications. These days, I am very interested in LLM evaluation, characterizing LLM behaviors by analyzing their longform text outputs, test-time scaling, and finding out whether we can better control the trade-off between the peaky distributions induced by alignment and the wilder, untamed distributions learnt by base models.

I am always willing to help and advise undergrad or masters students interested in NLP research. If you are interested in collaborating, please email me at ghoshsay@usc.edu!

This website is adapted from Gregory Gunderson.