About - Neekon Vafa
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I am a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows and a member of the research team at RESI. My research interests lie in theoretical computer science, particularly cryptography and its connections to statistics and AI safety. I received my PhD in mathematics from MIT, where I was advised by Vinod Vaikuntanathan and supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. I was a visiting researcher at NTT Research and more recently at the Alignment Research Center. Before MIT, I was a software engineer at Google (YouTube) and an undergrad at Harvard. See my CV for more details. Recent News:…
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