Pradeesh Suganthan
Working on understanding intelligence and exploring the stars.
I live in San Francisco, where I work on AI systems that keep learning on their own, for the agents and robots that have to operate in a world that never stops changing. I was born in Canada, grew up in the US, and studied mechanical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Right now I'm also working through Stanford's CS336, Language Modeling from Scratch, building language models end to end.
Don't hesitate to reach out or follow along. I love meeting people working on interesting problems, reading good books, or who just want to say hi. Reach me at pradeesh.suganthan at gmail.
What I'm working on
Most AI today is trained once and then frozen. I work on models that keep learning from their own experience, the way people and animals do, and on what it takes to make that work, and work safely, for agents and robots acting in a world that never stops changing.
Projects
Continual learning & world models
Current researchExperiments and notes on models that keep learning over time, and on how world models hold up under distribution shift. Code and write-ups as I go.
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Learn more →Interested in
Artificial intelligence
I work on AI that keeps learning after deployment, builds a model of a changing world, and lets you see what it actually learned.
Robotics
I came up through robotics, and getting machines to perceive and act in the physical world still pulls at me.
Space
I've followed space since I was a kid, mostly the engineering of getting things off the ground.
Misc
Piano for years, a lot of reading (the bookshelf here is most of it), and currently training for a triathlon.