Russ was an incredibly encouraging & supportive mentor who gave us freedom to pursue our own academic interests—spanning deep learning architectures, optimization, robotics, NLP, & multimodal representations—while providing hands-on expert guidance across our diverse projects.
I’ve been asked several times whether Zhilin Yang, the founder of @Kimi_Moonshot was my PhD student. The answer is yes and he is absolutely brilliant.
But I’ve been incredibly fortunate to work with so many outstanding PhD students over the years. So I thought I’d brag a little
