Philip Nielsen

Philip Nielsen

Research Fellow, Incoming PhD Student, Koumoutsakos Lab, Harvard University

Interested in Probabilistic Generative Modeling, Reinforcement Learning, and AI Safety and Interpretability

Recent Blog Posts

  • Forces-First Rollercoaster Design

    Try it out! Instead of designing the track and calculating the forces after, why not design the forces over time and have the computer calculate the track for you? It turns out to be a fairly interesting math problem which took me about a day of work to solve... Read more

  • Reverse Engineering GPT-4o's Image Gen Process

    OpenAI's 4o Image Generation capability launched two days ago on March 25th, 2025. The quality of the images it creates is the best among all contemporary models by a large margin. However, what is most interesting is the way... Read more

  • Math Practice Tools

    The Math Practice Tools are a set of interactive applications designed to help students prepare for mathematics competitions, specifically the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) and the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME). Features Practice questions fr... Read more

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