Devan Shah

CS + Math @ Princeton

West Nyack, New York, United States

About

I am a senior in Computer Science from Princeton University with a minor in mathematics. I am very grateful to have had my junior and senior thesis be advised by Prof. Elad Hazan.

Experience

  • Student Researcher, GDM Frontier AI at Google DeepMind
    Feb 2026 - May 2026 · 4 mos

    Research on improving LLM pretraining.

  • Princeton Language and Intelligence (1 yr 9 mos)
    • Student Researcher, Hazan Lab
      Sep 2024 - May 2026 · 1 yr 9 mos

      Studied mechanisms for convex training and fast inference of State Space Models with Prof. Elad Hazan.

    • Student Researcher, Princeton RL Group
      Aug 2025 - Jan 2026 · 6 mos

      Studied the application of Mutual Information Skill Learning methods for improving LLM pass@k with Prof. Benjamin Eysenbach.

  • Quantitative Research Intern at Jane Street
    May 2025 - Aug 2025 · 4 mos

    Reinforcement learning and market microstructure research.

  • Machine Learning Engineer Intern at TikTok
    May 2024 - Aug 2024 · 4 mos

    Research on user multi-interest modeling for the ecommerce video recommendation system.

  • Research Intern at CareYaya Health Technologies
    Nov 2023 - May 2024 · 7 mos

    Research on improving fMRI reconstruction of viewed scenes given a user's camera roll.