1. Learning to Add, Multiply, and Execute Algorithmic Instructions Exactly with Neural Networks (NeurIPS, 2025)
2. Exact Learning of Permutations for Nonzero Binary Inputs with Logarithmic Training Size and Quadratic Ensemble Complexity (High-dimensional Learning Dynamics Workshop @ ICML, 2025)
3. Positional Attention: Expressivity and Learnability of Algorithmic Computation (ICML, 2025)
4. Simulation of Graph Algorithms with Looped Transformers (ICML, 2024)
5. Local Graph Clustering with Noisy Labels (ICLR, 2024)
6. Mitigating Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning with Data Augmentation (Preprint, 2022)
Research Experience
Summer 2025: Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon New York, SCOT team, working with Ruijun Ma and Youxin Zhang on inbound event forecasting. 2022: Intern at Huawei’s Noah’s Ark Lab, focusing on Federated Learning and Domain Generalization with Guojun Zhang, and exploring invariant graph representations with Yingxue Zhang.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Advisor: Kimon Fountoulakis; M.Sc. in AI and Robotics, Sapienza University of Rome; B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina.
Background
Research Interests: Reasoning in neural networks, particularly their ability to learn algorithmic tasks; theoretical machine learning and graphs.