Niko Lorantos

About Me

I’m an undergraduate student at UMass Amherst studying Computational Mathematics with Honors. I am involved in Computational Social Science research at UMass CICS, and Neuroevolution research at Amherst College. I have experience working with language models, reinforcement learning, and evolutionary computation. I’m primarily interested in biologically-inspired machine learning systems.

Research Interests

artificial intelligence, machine learning, cognitive science

News

• [Sept. 2024] I’ve joined the MassAI executive board.
• [Aug. 2024] Attended the first annual 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.

Recent Lab Publications

Related Work

Websites

• Social Polls: Estimating Support for US Presidential Candidates
• Aura: An Assistant with Realtime Location-Based Search

Repositories

• NeuroPush: A Robust Neuroevolution Framwork
• Solving a Rubik's Cube with Reinforcement Learning