Working with PI Greg Durrett and his students as part of the TAUR Lab at NYU ( https://cims.nyu.edu/taur/ ), you are expected to collaborate within the lab, contributing to existing projects and helping to lead new ones, to produce strong research in the form of published papers, code releases, and blog posts. Specific topics will be decided on in consultation between you, the PI, and the PI’s PhD students. Broad topics of potential projects include LLM reasoning, LLM creativity, limitations of current scaling paradigms, AI for science, and more.



You will have access to compute resources in PI Durrett’s lab, including the NYU Torch and Greene clusters, Empire AI, cloud providers, and APIs for running inference with frontier models.



As part of the broader NYU community, you will have opportunities to collaborate with other faculty, postdocs, PhD students, MS students, and undergraduate students.



The appointment is initially f...