Samar Khanna
Founding Team @ Inception Labs | MS CS @ Stanford | CS @ Cornell

I am a founding ML/research engineer at Inception Labs, a startup led by Stanford Prof. Stefano Ermon, building next-generation diffusion language models.
I received my MS in CS with a distinction in research from Stanford University, specializing in AI. I worked with Prof. Stefano Ermon on self-supervised learning, generative (diffusion) models, and on building foundation models. My research interests center on making ML models generalize effectively to new, real-world data, especially to solve societally relevant tasks such as sustainability.
Before Stanford, I completed my Bachelor’s in CS at Cornell University, where I did research with Dean Kavita Bala and Prof. Bharath Hariharan. I was also actively involved as a team-lead in Cornell Data Science, a student-run project team.
Professionally, I have worked at Aurora as an ML engineer and have completed ML internships at NVIDIA and at Uber ATG.
For fun, I swim and play tennis– to relax, I enjoy reading books and watching movies.
Announcements
Sep 2024 | I left Aurora and joined Prof. Ermon to build next-generation, diffusion-based LLMs at Inception Labs! Check us out here! |
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Jun 2023 | I graduated from Stanford! |
May 2021 | 4 years of Cornell all wrapped up… |