Hi - I'm Lucas and I'm from Nebraska.

I'll spare you the details but here's my quick gist:

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• Studied finance at WashU in St. Louis
• Worked 2 years in investment banking after graduation at FT Partners
• Realized I needed a career change...when better than in your early 20s? Motivation behind my pivot here
• Took a year off to study math, machine learning, and computer science and apply to grad schools. Studied a lot but also had a bit of fun

• Currently:

  At UCSD studying ML and doing research applying RL to LLMs. My current work is focused on building a corporate sim to use as a multi-turn RL environment for LLMs. Recently released some work I led (+ gave a talk @ NeurIPS) on how your fine-tuning data influences downstream reasoning in chess

I promise I'm more of a person than this - feel free to reach out! 👋