Sreejan Kumar (@sreejan

Sreejan Kumar

544 posts

Sreejan Kumar

@sreejan_kumar

Joint Postdoc at Columbia @ZuckermanBrain and NYU @NYUPsych. Supported by @NYASciences. Prev at: Princeton PhD, RS Intern @Meta, Yale '19

Joined June 2013

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Sreejan Kumar
@sreejan_kumar
May 11
I'm excited to share my new work joint with @csaba_botos: how well do frontier LRMs like DeepSeek-V4 learn novel video games and predict brain signatures associated with game learning? We found that they achieve SOTA on both game performance and brain predictivity! Thread 1/7
Botos Csabi
@csaba_botos
May 11
Jeee 🐦‍⬛ I am very proud of our joint effort with @sreejan_kumar Kumar on the project "Reason to Play" LRMs show human-like rule discovery, and their hidden states predict human brain activity during gameplay. Interactive demo + paper: botcs.github.io/reason-to-play/
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Sreejan Kumar
@sreejan_kumar
Jul 5, 2025
I defended my PhD!
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Sreejan Kumar
@sreejan_kumar
Dec 4, 2022
Best #NeurIPS ever! Won Outstanding Paper AND met @ylecun!!
Sreejan Kumar
@sreejan_kumar
Nov 21, 2022
Exciting to share that our work won the Outstanding Paper Award at #NeurIPS2022!! This year, awarded to only 13 out of ~10k submissions blog.neurips.cc/2022/11/21/ann…. Super thankful for all my cross-discipline collaborators from @PrincetonNeuro, @PrincetonCS, and @DeepMind 🎉🎉🎉
Sreejan Kumar
@sreejan_kumar
May 25, 2022
Ecstatic to share a new preprint "Using Natural Language and Program Abstractions to Instill Human Inductive Biases in Machines" arxiv.org/abs/2205.11558
Sreejan Kumar
@sreejan_kumar
May 25, 2022
Ecstatic to share a new preprint "Using Natural Language and Program Abstractions to Instill Human Inductive Biases in Machines" arxiv.org/abs/2205.11558
Sreejan Kumar
@sreejan_kumar
Jul 1, 2024
Excited to share our work now published in Nature Communications - shared functional specialization in tansformer language models and the human brain! With co-first author @tedsumers, senior author @samnastase and others (@hawkrobe, @TakaYamakoshi). [1/n] nature.com/articles/s4146…
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Sreejan Kumar
@sreejan_kumar
Apr 5, 2022
arxiv.org/abs/2204.01437 Excited to share a new preprint! In this work, we present "task metamers" as a way to study the difference between human and neural network behavior in the context of meta-reinforcement learning of task distributions with underlying abstract structure.
Sreejan Kumar
@sreejan_kumar
Sep 15, 2022
I am incredibly excited to announce that this work has been accepted to #NEURIPS2022 (and flagged for an award!)
Sreejan Kumar
@sreejan_kumar
May 25, 2022
Ecstatic to share a new preprint "Using Natural Language and Program Abstractions to Instill Human Inductive Biases in Machines" arxiv.org/abs/2205.11558
Sreejan Kumar
@sreejan_kumar
Oct 2, 2023
New preprint (arxiv.org/abs/2309.17363) with incredible PNI second year co-first author, Declan Campbell! In this work, we show how ANNs can yield human behavior on abstract processing of geometric stimuli, providing an alternative to symbolic LoT models in this domain. [1/n]
arxiv.org
Relational Constraints On Neural Networks Reproduce Human Biases...
Uniquely among primates, humans possess a remarkable capacity to recognize and manipulate abstract structure in the service of task goals across a broad range of behaviors. One illustration of...
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Sreejan Kumar
@sreejan_kumar
Oct 7, 2020
Excited to share a new preprint w/ great collaborators, Ishita Dasgupta, Jon Cohen, Nathaniel Daw (@nathanieldaw ), and Tom Griffiths( @cocosci_lab) on meta-learning in humans and artificial agents! arxiv.org/abs/2010.02317
Sreejan Kumar
@sreejan_kumar
Oct 25, 2022
Happy to say that this work was designated as an Oral presentation at #NeurIPS2022!
Sreejan Kumar
@sreejan_kumar
May 25, 2022
Ecstatic to share a new preprint "Using Natural Language and Program Abstractions to Instill Human Inductive Biases in Machines" arxiv.org/abs/2205.11558
Sreejan Kumar
@sreejan_kumar
Oct 13, 2023
Excited to be a part of this community!
Google AI
@GoogleAI
Oct 13, 2023
In 2009, Google created the PhD Fellowship Program to recognize and support outstanding graduate students pursuing exceptional research in computer science and related fields. Today, we congratulate the recipients of the 2023 Google PhD Fellowship! goo.gle/3PYfLXl
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Sreejan Kumar
@sreejan_kumar
Jan 3, 2023
Check this out! This kind of work is going to be hugely important in the next coming years
Edward Tian
@edward_the6
Jan 3, 2023
I spent New Years building GPTZero — an app that can quickly and efficiently detect whether an essay is ChatGPT or human written
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Sreejan Kumar
@sreejan_kumar
Apr 29, 2025
Excited to join this community and incredibly grateful to the New York Academy of Sciences and Leon Levy Foundation for funding my postdoctoral research!
NYAS
@NYASciences
Apr 29, 2025
Congratulations to the 2025 #LeonLevyScholars!🎉 Announcing the 2025 #LeonLevyScholars, in partnership with the Leon Levy Foundation. Recipients participate in a multi-year postdoctoral program to advance their careers. Read more about the Scholars: bit.nyas.org/3Yoa6Pf
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