Gireeja Ranade

Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Joined

July 2019

Names

Gireeja Ranade

Emails

****@eecs.berkeley.edu (Confirmed)

****@berkeley.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Associate Professor

University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)

2018 – Present

Researcher

Microsoft (microsoft.com)

2014 – 2018

PhD student

University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)

2007 – 2014

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Family

Anant Sahai

2018 – Present

Postdoc Advisor

Yuval Peres

2014 – 2017

Postdoc Advisor

Eric Horvitz

2014 – 2017

Expertise

education

control

Present

Publications

Pretraining with Masked Backstories in a Toy World
Sultan Daniels, Dylan Davis, Gireeja Ranade, Anant Sahai
- Sci4DL 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Control of Dynamical Systems with Multiplicative Observation Noise with Unknown Distribution Parameters
Eric Xu, Gireeja Ranade
- Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing
- Readers: Everyone
Unspoken Logic: Understanding and bridging the gap between free-form and LLM-interpretable natural language mathematical proofs
Chenjun Guo, Manooshree Patel, Bjoern Hartmann, J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Sarah Chasins, Gireeja Ranade
- MATH-AI 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Decomposing Prediction Mechanisms for In-context Recall
Sultan Daniels, Dylan Davis, Dhruv Gautam, Wentinn Liao, Gireeja Ranade, Anant Sahai
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
LeanTutor: A Lean-Verified Tutor for Mathematical Proofs
Manooshree Patel, Rayna Bhattacharyya, Thomas Lu, Arnav Mehta, Niels Voss, Narges Norouzi, Gireeja Ranade
- AI4Math@ICML25 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Emergence, pretraining loss and associative recall: a toy model
Sultan Daniels, Dylan Davis, Dhruv Gautam, Wentinn Liao, Gireeja Ranade, Anant Sahai
- MOSS@ICML2025
- Readers: Everyone
Different simultaneous mechanisms for in-context recall have distinct learning dynamics
Sultan Daniels, Dylan Davis, Dhruv Gautam, Wentinn Liao, Gireeja Ranade, Anant Sahai
- HiLD at ICML 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Broadening Participation in CS Research with Scalable Undergraduate Research Mini-Projects
Bridget Agyare, Manooshree Patel, Alicia Matsumoto, Gireeja Ranade
- SIGCSE (2) 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Analyzing Pedagogical Quality and Efficiency of LLM Responses with TA Feedback to Live Student Questions
Mihran Miroyan, Chancharik Mitra, Rishi Jain, Gireeja Ranade, Narges Norouzi
- SIGCSE (1) 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Raising the Bar: Automating Consistent and Equitable Student Support with LLMs
Meenakshi Mittal, Azalea Bailey, Victoria Phelps, Mihran Miroyan, Chancharik Mitra, Rishi Jain, Rose Niousha, Gireeja Ranade, Narges Norouzi
- SIGCSE (2) 2025
- Readers: Everyone

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