William Tong
Research Assistant at Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Tong is a Research Assistant and PhD student at Harvard with a decade of experience at the intersection of deep learning, cognitive science, and software engineering. He develops theoretical and empirical work on neural architectures—demonstrating, for example, in-context learning in MLPs and formulating prompt-style/task-topology theory for Transformers—results published and presented at venues including ICLR and CCN Proceedings. His background spans applied research and production systems, from designing a 1.6B-token Lean proof dataset to building deployed NLP pipelines and AWS-based ingestion services. William blends rigorous mathematical training (PhD/MS in Applied Mathematics/Data Science) with hands-on engineering at Google and startups, enabling him to validate theory at scale. Notably, his work often uncovers underappreciated phenomena (e.g., equality reasoning and learning richness in MLPs) that reshape assumptions about model capabilities. Based in Cambridge, MA, he brings both experimental creativity and practical delivery to problems in reasoning and representation learning.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Applied Mathematics at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New YorkHigh School, High School at Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Github Skills (42)
go-api10
api10
sdk10
opentelemetry10
logging10
pybluez9
solidity9
headphones9
collector9
distributed-tracing9
blockchain9
at-command9
golang9
opentelemetry-go9
otel9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wtong98/automated-curriculum-learning
Feb 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:121 commits, 1 PR, 181 pushes in 11 months
wtong98/wtong98.github.io
Jan 2019 - May 2023
Contributions:27 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
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