David Brandfonbrener

Researcher, Anthropic
Joined
September 2019

Names

David Brandfonbrener (Preferred)

Emails

****@nyu.edu (Confirmed)
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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
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****@g.harvard.edu (Confirmed)
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****@anthropic.com (Confirmed)
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****@meta.com

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher
Anthropic (anthropic.com)
2025 – Present
Researcher
Meta (meta.com)
2025 – 2025
Postdoc
Kempner Institute, Harvard University (harvard.edu)
2023 – 2025
PhD student
New York University (nyu.edu)
2018 – 2023

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor
Joan Bruna
2018 – 2023

Expertise

large language models
2023 – Present
representation learning
, 
statistical learning theory
, 
generalization
2020 – Present
reinforcement learning
, 
offline
2020 – Present
reinforcement learning
, 
optimization
, 
generalization
2018 – Present
reinforcement learning
, 
exploration
, 
regret bounds
2019 – 2021

Publications

View all 29 publications

Co-Authors

View all 75 co-authors