Niko Lorantos

About Me

I’m an undergraduate student at UMass Amherst studying Computational Mathematics with Honors. I am currently involved in evolutionary computation research at Amherst College, and have experience with language models and reinforcement learning. My primary research interest is in biologically-inspired learning systems.

Research Interests

artificial intelligence, machine learning, cognitive science

News

• [Sept. 2024] I’ve joined the MassAI executive board.
• [Aug. 2024] Attended the Reinforcement Learning Conference at UMass Amherst.
• [May 2024] I’ve joined the PUSH Lab at Amherst College.
• [May 2024] Developed LLMs to discover protein structures at a Boston biotech startup.
• [Apr. 2024] IC2S2 paper submission nominated for social impact and research methods awards.
• [Mar. 2024] Head of Networking at UMass Data Science Club for the Spring semester.
• [Feb. 2024] I’ve joined the SIMS Lab at UMass Amherst.