Benjamin Plaut (Preferred)
Benjamin Plaut
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