Alan Sun

About Me

I am a first-year MSCS student at Carnegie Mellon University and a recent recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

This past summer, I was a visiting scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for Software Systems advised by Mariya Toneva. I earned my undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Mathematics at Dartmouth College with highest honors. At Dartmouth, I conducted research with Soroush Vosoughi where I worked to create a mathematical framework that enables the characterization of robustness of language models. My honors thesis, Acheiving Domain-Independent Certified Robustness via Knowledge Continuity, was awarded First Prize for Oustanding Research in Computational Sciences by the Neukom Institute as well as the John G. Kemeny Computing Prize for Innovation.

Research

I am interested in improving the robustness and interpretability of deep learning models by uncovering the mechanisms that underlie their decision-making processes.