hi, i’m steven

steveng0 at cs.washington.edu

i’m a first-year phd student co-advised by profs. Baris Kasikci, Stephanie Wang, and Luke Zettlemoyer at the university of washington, where i’m part of the Systems for Future Intelligence lab. my background spans ML, systems, and graphics, and i’m broadly interested in efficient world modeling and self-improving systems.

i graduated from university of illinois urbana-champaign where I majored in CS and was mentored by profs. sarita adve, brighten godfrey, and shenglong wang. prior than that, i graduated from phillips exeter academy.

Awards

2025 Microsoft Endowed Fellowship, UW
2023 Jeffery P. Blahut Scholarship, UIUC
2023 Yunni and Maxine Pao Scholarship, UIUC
2022 Chacellor’s Scholar, UIUC