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

Programming Languages: Python, HTML, CSS, JS, SQL, PHP, R
Developer Tools: Git, Google Cloud Platform, VS Code, RStudio, Qualtrics, Google Sheets, Google Apps Script
Libraries: FastText, Numpy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, pandasDB, BeautifulSoup, Word2Vec, Gensim, GloVe, BERT, OpenAI API
Machinery: Siemens fMRI scanning and data analysis
Certifications: CITI Biomedical Research Code of Conduct, CITI Biomedical Research Investigators, MRI Yellowbadge
Spoken Languages: English (native), Spanish (fluent), Dutch (intermediate), Italian (intermediate), Esperanto (beginner)

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