Kargi Chauhan

I'm an MS candidate in Natural Language Processing at UC Santa Cruz, working with Dr. Leilani Gilpin and Dr. Daniel Fremont on Interpretability and autonomous systems.

I received my Undergrad from the University of Arizona.

I like Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Systems, and Making AI Explainable. My current research centers on environment modeling (world modeling) and data generation for autonomous intelligent.

If an autonomous vehicle ever needs to explain why it made a split-second decision in the middle of traffic, that's exactly the kind of problem I'm trying to solve :)

Previously:

• Stealth AI startup fine-tuning LLaMA models for human preference alignment
• Visiting ML Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh
• NASA JPL building attitude estimation systems for CubeSats

Beyond research, I'm passionate about space exploration. I love experimenting with plant-based cooking and trying every matcha variation I can find.

I enjoy reading and distilling what I learn into zines (brewing!), and I often spend time in cafés where one article or idea sparks unexpected discoveries on Wikipedia.

In my free time, I maintain my learning journey blog at Kargi's Notebook .

I live by the philosophy that the most interesting breakthroughs happen when you take the scenic route, linear paths are for those who don't appreciate a good plot twist.