Andrea Wynn

I am a fully funded MSE student, researcher, and teaching assistant in the Computer Science department at Princeton University, working on my thesis advised by Dr. Tom Griffiths in the Princeton Computational Cognitive Science Lab. I worked with Expedia Group in summer 2023 as a Machine Learning Science Intern.

I received a B.S. in both Computer Science and Mathematics from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in May 2022, and have completed software engineering internships at Amazon Web Services, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, and Collins Aerospace, and a research internship at Circa.

While at Rose-Hulman, I received many awards, including the Herman A. Moench Distinguished Senior Commendation, Frank Young Outstanding Service Award, and Henry Turner Eddy Award for Applied Mathematics, among others.

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My paper, Learning Human-like Representations to Enable Learning Human Values, has been accepted to AAAI 2024 as part of the Human-Centric Representation Learning Workshop!

I'm a member of the Princeton Computational Cognitive Science Lab, supervised by Dr. Tom Griffiths, where I am investigating value and representational alignment between humans and large language models in a reinforcement learning setting.

Accepted to AAAI 2024, Human-Centric Representation Learning Workshop. Preprint available here. Additional results in submission to ICML.

Making AI systems learn human-like representations of the world has many known benefits, including improving generalization, robustness to domain shifts, and few-shot learning performance, among others. We propose that this kind of representational alignment between machine learning (ML) models and humans is also a necessary condition for alignment with human values and objectives. We demonstrate this by training multiple ML agents in a multi-armed bandit setting and studying the relationship between their degree of representational alignment with humans and their performance when learning to take ethical actions.

I find and prove the existence of Dirac conical points in multiple 2D materials under certain conditions on electric potential, a property which has been conjectured to be related to the unique properties of graphene. I additionally discovered and proved the existence of a new type of spectral touching point, which I named the mesa touching point.

Expedia Group Vacation Rental Dynamic Pricing Team, Machine Learning Science Intern, May - July 2023.

Amazon Web Services Pool Balancing & Demand Forecasting Team, Software Development Engineer Intern, June - August 2022.

Circa, Research Intern, November 2021 - May 2022.

Amazon Web Services Outposts Team, Software Development Engineer Intern, June - August 2021.

Impact Snacks, Software Engineering Intern, March - May 2021.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Software Engineering Intern, June - August 2020.

Collins Aerospace, Software Engineering Intern, June - August 2019.

Backpat Tutoring, Co-Founder & Volunteer Coordination Manager, May 2020 - May 2022.

Society of Asian Scientists & Engineers, Midwest Regional Coordinator, June 2022 - Present.

Society of Asian Scientists & Engineers, Midwest Regional Conference Chair, August 2021 - March 2022.

Society of Asian Scientists & Engineers, Rose-Hulman Chapter President, February 2020 - May 2022.

Society of Women Engineers, Rose-Hulman Chapter Secretary, March 2019 - March 2021.

Society of Asian Scientists & Engineers, Rose-Hulman Chapter Secretary, February 2019 - February 2020.

Society of Asian Scientists & Engineers, Rose-Hulman Chapter Outreach Chair, October 2018 - February 2019.

COS126 Computer Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Princeton University, Fall 2022 + Spring 2023 + Fall 2023.

CSSE333 Database Systems, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Spring Quarter 2021.

CSSE333 Database Systems, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Winter Quarter 2020-21.

CSSE304 Programming Language Concepts, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Fall Quarter 2020.

CSSE333 Database Systems, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Spring Quarter 2020.

CSSE333 Database Systems, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Winter Quarter 2019-20.

CSSE333 Database Systems, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Fall Quarter 2019.

CSSE230 Data Structures & Algorithm Analysis, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Fall Quarter 2019.

Lead Science Educator in Training, Seattle Pacific Science Center, Summers 2017-2018.

Volunteer English Teachers in China, Little Masters Club, Ankang, China, Summer 2017.

Science Educator in Training, Seattle Pacific Science Center, Summers 2014-2016.

Princeton University Teaching Assistantship (with Full Funding), Princeton University, August 2022 - Present.

Herman A. Moench Distinguished Senior Commendation, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, May 2022.

Frank Young Outstanding Service Award, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, May 2022.

Summa Cum Laude Graduate, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, May 2022.

Center for Diversity Student Ambassador Award, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, May 2022.

Rose-Hulman Independent Research Project Grant Recipient, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, February 2022.

Society of Women Engineers Conference Scholarship (sponsored by BorgWarner), October 2021.

2021 Chevron Scholar & Scholarship Recipient, Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers, September 2021.

Henry Turner Eddy Award for Applied Mathematics, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, May 2021.

TechPointX SOS Tech Challenge First Place Winner, August 2020.

Student Leader of the Quarter, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Spring 2020.

Diversity Connect Engineering Design Challenge First Place Winner, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, October 2018.

Rose-Hulman Dean's List, 12x (All Quarters Attending), August 2018 - May 2022.

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