Nicolas Beltran-Velez

PhD student, Columbia University
Intern, FAIR, Facebook
Joined
January 2024

Names

Nicolas Beltran-Velez (Preferred)

Emails

****@columbia.edu (Confirmed)
, 
****@meta.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student
Columbia University (columbia.edu)
2023 – Present
Intern
FAIR, Facebook (meta.com)
2025 – 2026
Undergrad student
Columbia University (columbia.edu)
2018 – 2022

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor
David Blei
2023 – Present

Expertise

Mechanistic Interpretability
, 
Circuit Discovery
2023 – Present
Generative Models
, 
Diffusion Models
, 
Flow Matching
, 
Normalizing Flows
2020 – Present
Bayesian Models
, 
Tilted Distributions
, 
Exponential Families
2019 – Present

Publications

Co-Authors