I am a final-year math PhD student at Harvard. I am advised by Virginia Vassilevska Williams and Madhu Sudan, and I also work with the Harvard ML Foundations research group under the supervision of Boaz Barak. I am supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
My research spans theoretical computer science (graph algorithms and complexity theory) and machine learning, with a focus on out-of-distribution generalization, interpretability, and ML for good. I write The AI Interpreter, a blog about the impact of AI on society.
'Causal' Promises but 'Correlational' Delivers: A Study of Circuit Mechanisms and Model Behaviors
J. Kaufmann, V. Li, M. Wattenberg, D. Alvaris-Melis, and N. Saphra. NeurIPS SciForDL Workshop, 2024
Twin Studies of Factors in Out-of-Distribution Generalization
V. Li, J. Kaufmann, D. Alvaris-Melis, and N. Saphra. NeurIPS SciForDL Workshop, 2024
M. Guan, A. Muthuswamy, S. Sun, C. Drew, J. Kaufmann, et al. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, 2023
Research conducted during a data science internship at Genmab. Abstract only.
Approximating min-diameter: standard and bichromatic
A. Berger, J. Kaufmann, and V. Vassilevska Williams. ESA, 2023. [arXiv]
Coloring graph classes with no induced fork via perfect divisibility
T. Karthick, J. Kaufmann, and V. Sivaraman. Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2022. [arXiv]
Approximation algorithms for min-distance problems in DAGs
M. Dalirrooyfard and J. Kaufmann. ICALP, 2021. [arXiv]
Square-free graphs with no induced fork
M. Chudnovsky, S. Huang, T. Karthick, and J. Kaufmann. Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2021
On some edge Folkman numbers small and large
J. Kaufmann, H. Wickus, and S. Radziszowski. Involve: A Journal of Mathematics, 2019
Approximating Min-Diameter: Standard and Bichromatic
European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA) 2023, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Approximation Algorithms for Min-Distance Problems in DAGs
International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP) 2021, online
The Structure of (Fork, C4)-Free Graphs
Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) 2019, Baltimore MD
Perfect Divisibility of Fork-Free Graphs
Young Mathematicians Conference (YMC) 2018, Columbus OH
On Some Edge Folkman Numbers
Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) 2017, Atlanta GA