Alan Sun

About Me

I’m a second-year MSCS student at Carnegie Mellon University.

Before CMU, 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 created 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.

I’m very grateful to be supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Research

I am interested in exploring the duality between the generality of deep networks and their interpretability.