🦧 adil

About

Feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat! 🙂

Current ⚡ :
I am currently an Associate Applied Machine Learning Specialist at the Vector Institute where I work under the LLM Infrastructure Team. I have been very fortunate to have worked with wonderful friends and collaborators who (non-exhaustively) are Maria Attarian, Roger Grosse, Igor Gilitschenski, and Guodong Zhang.

Research Interests 🧠 :
With the rate at which our field is changing, this varies time to time. However, I've become increasingly interested in interpretability and alignment of LLMs and take large interest in the literature at present (e.g. grokking, mechanistic interpretability, etc.)

Hobbies & Passions 🚀 :
Being in a fortunate enough position, one of my life long passions has always been giving back to the community. I am usually working towards volunteering and helping charitable causes. Other times, you'll probably find me playing video games. More recently, I have started reading the works of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers (e.g. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius).

Relevant Courses

Past

CSC304 - Algorithmic Game Theory and Mechanism Design

CSC336 - Numerical Methods

CSC420 - Introduction to Image Understanding

CSC401 - Natural Language Computing

CSC412 - Probabilistic Learning and Reasoning

CSC413 - Neural Networks and Deep Learning

CSC494 - Computer Science Project w/ Maria Attarian

CSC311 - Intro to Machine Learning

CSC369 - Operating Systems

CSC343 - Intro to Databases

CSC263 - Data Structures and Analysis

CSC320 - Intro to Visual Computing

CSC373 - Algorithm Design, Analysis & Complexity

CSC384 - Intro to Artificial Intelligence

MAT235 - Multivariable Calculus

MAT137 - Calculus with Proofs

MAT223 - Linear Algebra I

Audited

(Graduate Course) CSC2541 - Neural Net Training Dynamics

Adil Asif

adil [dot] asif [at] mail [dot] utoronto [dot] ca

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"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth." - Muhammad Ali