Ching Lam CHOIMIT CSAIL

Hello, I’m

Ching Lam CHOI.

PhD student in EECS at MIT CSAIL.

I study structure in multimodal foundation models, and how it can make learning more reliable.

I’m co-supervised by Phillip Isola, Antonio Torralba, and Stefanie Jegelka.

Ching Lam Choi outdoors

During my bachelor’s at CUHK, I had the pleasure of researching with Aaron Courville and Yann Dauphin at Mila; Wieland Brendel at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen; and Serge Belongie at Copenhagen’s Pioneer Centre. At CUHK, I worked with Hongsheng Li (MMLab), Anthony Man-Cho So, Farzan Farnia, and Qi Dou.

I’m interested in cryptographic approaches to AI safety and robustness: property testing to certify model behaviour, one-way functions for the safe deployment of open-source models, and zero-knowledge proofs to probe convergent and emergent multi-agent systems.

I’m also working towards Platonic world models that reason across modalities, including sim-to-real systems in which agents perform experiments following the scientific method. My recent work explores the structure of synthetic data, reliable representations, and what makes data useful for learning.

Milestones

Selected as 1 of 600 young scientists globally to dialogue with Nobel Prize winners in peace and the interdisciplinary sciences at the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. Supported by a fellowship from the Texas A&M University.

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