Ben (Quan) Shi

Hi, my name is Ben, and I’m a recent graduate of Princeton University where I received my undergraduate degree in computer science. I’m originally from Changsha, China, and moved to West Virginia in the 5th grade. I am fortunate to be advised by Professor Karthik Narasimhan, as well as Dr. Shunyu Yao. Previous I was an intern at Meta.

Nowadays, I’m particularly interested in Human-AI collaboration in reasoning environments, briding the gap between human intent and model capability. This will require better alignment of human and model representations of the world to enable data efficient generalization and seamless communication. Super excited to explore this in future work. Evals are also a big part of this: there needs to be more utility-based evals that return transferrable signals to downstream tasks. See my past work.

My undergraduate thesis was on analyzing and improving LLM performance on competitive programming, where I received the Sigma Xi Book award for outstanding undergraduate research and publication record.

In my free time I love to do coding contests and to make music. So much so that I built a generative AI pop music composition tool. I also love to produce music + sing. I frequently perform at local coffee shops!

Feel free to contact me at [x]@princeton.edu, where [x] = benshi.

Sneak peek as to what’s next. Email for a demo.