Warren Shepard

I am a third year undergraduate student at Dartmouth College double majoring in computer science and mathematics. I currently do research under Professor Deeparnab Chakrabarty with funding from the James O. Freedman Presidential Scholars Program. I just finished an internship at SpaceX (Starlink) in Redmond and am currently interning at Microsoft in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

My research interests are in computer science theory and machine learning. In computer science theory, I am interested in minimum cut algorithms on hypergraphs. In machine learning, I am interested in mechanistic interpretability, which involves uncovering the mechanisms neural networks employ in their decision making processes.

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Research
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Algorithmic Phase Transitions in Large Language Models: A Mechanistic Case Study of Arithmetic


Alan Sun, Ethan Sun, Warren Shepard
ATTRIB @ NeurIPS 2024
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Teaching
COCS 010 Problem Solving via Object-Oriented Programming     (TA: Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Winter 2025)
MATH 003 Calculus     (Grader: Winter 2025)

Coursework

Computer Science
COCS 001 Introduction to Programming & Computation
COCS 010 Problem Solving via Object-Oriented Programming
COCS 030 Discrete Math in Computer Science
COCS 031† Algorithms
COCS 055 Security and Privacy
COCS 059 Principles of Programming Languages
COCS 183* Computer Vision (grad)
COCS 189.32† Multimodalities of GenAI (grad)
COCS 234 Randomized Algorithms (grad)
COCS 237* Information Theory (grad)

Mathematics
MATH 13 Multivariable Calculus
PHYS 13 Introductory Physics I (mechanics)
PHYS 14† Introductory Physics II (E&M)
MATH 022 Linear Algebra With Applications
MATH 023 Differential Equations
MATH 054 Topology
MATH 060 Honors Probability
MATH 063* Honors Real Analysis
MATH 071 Honors Abstract Algebra

Neuroscience and Philosophy

WRIT 005 What is Knowledge? (Epistemology)
PSYC 006 Introduction to Neuroscience
PHIL 9.08 Ethics of Information and Information Technology (AI/ML ethics)
PSYC 51.09 Human Memory

* denotes ongoing courses
† denotes citations for academic excellence awarded by professor. Citations make up ~2.4% of grades at Dartmouth.

Design and source code from David Yan's fork of Alexander Raistrick's fork of Leonid Keselman's Jekyll fork of Jon Barron's website