소개
Zarif Ikram is a 1st-year PhD student in Computer Engineering at USC, advised by Paria Rashidinejad. His research interests lie at the intersection of world models and scalable oversight, with a major theme being the principled understanding of “why” in post-training foundation models. Recently, he has worked on online second-order methods for continual improvement. Beyond research, Zarif is a classically trained vocalist and multi-instrumentalist.
More information about his work is available on his personal website. (opens in new tab)