Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

Jascha is most (in)famous for inventing diffusion models. His recent work has focused on theory of overparameterized neural networks, meta-training of learned optimizers, and understanding the capabilities of large language models. Jascha recently joined Anthropic, as a member of the technical staff. He has previously worked as a principal scientist in Google Brain and Google DeepMind, as a visiting scholar in Surya Ganguli's lab at Stanford University, and as an academic resident at the Khan Academy education nonprofit.  He earned his PhD in 2012 in the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley, in Bruno Olshausen's lab. Prior to his PhD, he worked sending rovers to Mars.