Curricula Vitae
George Flint
Boston, MA;
Berkeley, CA
georgeflint [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Undergraduate, Class of 2026
Cognitive Sciences, 3.9
Publications
Aalok Sathe, George Flint, Evelina Fedorenko,* Noga Zaslavsky*
Language use is only sparsely compositional: The case of English adjective-nounphrases in humans and large language models
George Flint, Anna Ivanova
Testing a Distributional Semantics Account of Grammatical Gender Effects on Semantic Gender Perception
Experience
Researcher
Lab of Anna Ivanova, Georgia Institute of Technology
Developing a Hebbian foundation model as the sole theorist and implementor, under the mentorship of Anna Ivanova, as part of a Hebbian implementationalist language research program
May 2024 - Present
Researcher
Lab of Evelina Fedorenko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
First-authorship study on linguistic relativity in a distributional semantic space, humans
Gathered and analyzed gigabytes of MRI scan data on brain-lesioned but phenotypically normal participants (project)
Second-authorship studycompositional utilization cross-linguistically and LLM performance on understanding the plausibility of adjective-noun compositions
Investigating patterns in semantic projections onto least reductive dimensionality lines in distributional semantic space
May 2023 - August 2024
Instructor
UC Berkeley
Created the Linguistics 198 course on linguistic relativity and taught over 50 students
January 2023 - May 2023
Project Manager
Launchpad (UC Berkeley)
Leading a team of engineers for a generative AI project (details published when complete)
May 2024 - Present
Head of Education
Launchpad (UC Berkeley)
In charge of machine learning lectures and other education material, internal and external
May 2024 - Present
Machine Learning Engineer
Launchpad (UC Berkeley)
January 2024 - Present
Research Mentor, Machine Learning Engineer
Algoverse
Mentoring 11 student teams on research projects aimed at publishing in machine learning and computational linguistics conferences
June 2024 - Present
Cofounder, Full-Stack Developer
USearch
Developed data gathering/sifting infrastructure, frontend architecture
Developing architecture semantic search and LLM-powered answers to students' queries on their university
Directing growth to other schools (working models for Berkeley and BU currently)
August 2023 - Present
Full-Stack Web Developer
Freelance
Web development services for dozens of clients
November 2018 - Present
Skills
Licenses & Certifications
CITI Biomedical Research Code of Conduct
May 2023, MIT
CITI Biomedical Research Investigators
May 2023, MIT
MRI Yellowbadge
May 2023, MIT
References
Anna Ivanova
Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
annaiv@mit.edu
Kevin Zhu
Founder, CEO, Algoverse AI Research Academy
kevin@algoverse.us
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