Niko Lorantos

Math and AI Research
University of Massachusetts
nlorantos (at) umass.edu

About Me

Honors Mathematics student involved in AI research at UMass CICS and Amherst College.

Research Interests

artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, deep learning

News

[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] Appointed as Head of Networking at UMass Data Science Club.
[Feb. 2024] I’ve joined the SIMS Lab at UMass Amherst.

Recent Lab Publications

MPSA

Analyzing and Estimating Support for U.S. Presidential Candidates in Twitter Polls

Stephen Scarano, Vijayalakshmi Vasudevan, Chhandak Bagchi, Mattia Samory, JungHwan Yang, Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz

Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), 2025.

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NeurIPS

Objectives Are All You Need: Solving Deceptive Problems Without Explicit Diversity Maintenance

Ryan Boldi, Li Ding, Lee Spector

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023.

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Projects

Research

Miscellaneous