Vedang Lad

I'm a PhD student at Stanford University, fortunate to be working with Surya Ganguli and Christopher Potts. I'm particularly interested in uncovering the mechanisms and structures that give rise to intelligence and using that understanding to build smarter and safer AI systems.

I previously worked as a researcher at Metamorphic Labs and the Enigma Project at Stanford University with Andreas Tolias and Sophia Sanborn. I received my MEng in EECS from MIT, where I worked on mechanistic interpretability with Max Tegmark. Before that, I studied computer science and physics at MIT, where I worked on data-centric methods in ML. Outside of research, I competed in NCAA cross country and track and field at MIT. I currently run competitively for Peninsula Distance Club.