Benjamin Plaut (Preferred)
Benjamin Plaut
Pronouns: he/him
Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley
- Joined September 2020
Names
Emails
****@stanford.edu (Confirmed)
, ****@berkeley.edu (Confirmed)
, ****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Postdoc
University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)
2023 – Present
Researcher
Lyft Inc. (lyft.com)
2021 – 2023
PhD student
Stanford University (stanford.edu)
2016 – 2021
Undergrad student
Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)
2012 – 2016
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Expertise
out-of-distribution detection, robustness, generalization
2023 – Present
multi-armed bandits, contextual bandits, Lipschitz bandits
2023 – Present
AI safety, AI alignment, catastrophic risk
2023 – Present
online learning, no-regret algorithms
2023 – Present
LLMs, uncertainty quantification, LLM alignment
2023 – Present