talks

You can find some of my invited talks and presentations below.

2025-04
Large Language and Reasoning Models are Shallow Disjunctive Reasoners
Remote
Benchmarking LLMs and LRMs on the STaR dataset reveals shallow reasoning and heuristic exploitation.
2025-02
Deepseek R1 spills the post-training beans
Learning and Reasoning Seminar # 1 @ Cardiff
Intro to Post-training for reasoning following the latest open source advancements.
2024-11
Epistemic Graph Neural Networks for Systematic Relational Reasoning
Remote
Intro to the highly challenging task of Systematic Generalization using Graph Neural Networks and a novel architecture that addresses this for the relational/symbolic domain.
2024-04
Machine Learning methods for Robust Quantum Optimal Control
Remote
Viva Talk for my PhD Defense.
2022-08
Towards improved sample complexity using a quantum model based SAC
MLQC^2 Workshop @ Nordita, Stockholm
I present progress on a model based RL algorithm I was working on for quantum control mixing neural ODEs, Hamiltonian learning and reinforcement learning.