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.