Yash Mehta
I’m a second-year PhD student in Computational Cognitive Science, with a background in computer science. My research lies at the intersection of AI and cognitive science. I’m also drawn to robotics and have a keen interest in enhancing research productivity through tools, habits, and innovative approaches. Prior to academia, I worked as a software developer at Amazon before transitioning to pursue research.
Research experience
I’ve had the opportunity to explore several research areas and work in different labs in 🇺🇸, 🇩🇪, 🇬🇧, 🇸🇬, and 🇮🇳. Here are some of the topics I’ve worked on:
- Biologically inspired learning algorithms 🧠
NeurIPS’24 NeurIPS’22 NeurIPS’21 - Neural architecture search 🔍
ICLR’22 - Large language models for personality trait prediction 🤖
IEEE ICDM’20 AI Review’20 FGCS’22
I also completed a short PhD rotation project at Harvard Medical School, focusing on knowledge graphs for automating radiology report generation.
If any of this resonates with your interests, I’d love to connect—feel free to reach out!
News
| Sep 25, 2024 | Our paper on infering synaptic plasticity rules got accepted at NeurIPS 2024! 🏆 |
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| Jun 15, 2024 | Gave a talk on my work at Koita Center for Digital Health at IIT Bombay. |
| Oct 15, 2023 | Started at Harvard Medical School with Pranav Rajpurkar to work on knowledge graphs for automated radiology report generation 🏥 |
| Sep 1, 2023 | “Multimodal Foundation Models @ICML’23” at SenticLab in NTU Singapore! |
| Aug 19, 2023 | Research visit to the Flatiron Institute and PolymathicAI team - multimodal foundation models for science! |
| Jul 20, 2023 | Attended ICML 2023 in Hawaii! 🏄🏻♂️🌸 |
| Mar 23, 2023 | My application for US immigration has been approved under EB1A category - individual of outstanding ability! 🇺🇸 |
| Dec 1, 2022 | Co-presented work on node perturbation at NeurIPS 2022 in New Orleans! ✨🎷 |
| Oct 1, 2022 | 1 month as a student researcher in Larry Abbott’s lab at the Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University! 🗽 |
| May 27, 2022 | Got Married!    |
| May 1, 2022 | Our special issue “Future-generation personality prediction from digital footprints” was accepted at FGCS international journal! Managing guest editor 🤝 |
| Apr 25, 2022 | Presented our NAS-BenchSuite paper on neural architecture search at ICLR’22. |
| Jan 10, 2022 | Started at HHMI Janelia Research Campus working on modeling synaptic plasticity with James Fitzgerald and Jan Funke 🪰 |
| Nov 1, 2021 | Co-created attention and transformers module with Prof. Frank Hutter. Also served as TA for Deep Learning Lab, and Deep Learning MSc. courses. |
| Oct 15, 2020 | Joined the AutoML group with Frank Hutter at University of Freiburg, Germany, to work on neural architecture search. |
| Jan 10, 2019 | Joined Gatsby Unit, UCL in London as a Research Assistant working on biologically plausiblle credit assignment algorithms with Peter Latham and Tim Lillicrap (DeepMind)! ⚡️🙌🏼 |
| Jul 15, 2018 | Started working at Amazon as a software development engineer in Bangalore. |
| Jul 1, 2018 | Graduated in Computer Science from BITS Pilani Goa! 🎓 |
| Jan 15, 2018 | Started undergraduate research thesis with Erik Cambria on using large language models for personality trait prediction. |