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 and systems, and i’m broadly interested in self-improving systems and efficient world modeling.

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.