Madhavendra Thakur
Student • Researcher • Maker
I'm Madhav, a student at Trinity School in NYC deeply interested in the applications of AI and the interface between AI and society.
My recent work focuses on AI safety and governance,
and has been accepted to be presented at NeurIPS, ICLR (first author), and ICML.
I'm a researcher at Columbia AI Alignment, and have collaborated with researchers from Stanford, Berkeley and Cambridge.
My interests are broad, and I have applied ML to biology, as I do now as a researcher
conducting computational drug discovery at Memorial Sloan Kettering, as well as linguistics, creating state-of-the-art translators for
no-resource language translation, which I presented at ISEF '25
(more on that at vaach.org). I've also created ML powered Python libraries, created AI agents at Elastic, and done benchmarking work for METR
I design enterprise platforms as a software engineer, and have created Chrome extensions with 300+ weekly active users
At school, I lead Trinity's quiz bowl and competitive programming teams and have led the robotics team to represent the US at the RoboCup World Championships twice.
In whatever time is left, I like to ponder international relations and write (bad) poetry.