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

• [Dec. 2024] Elected as VP of Education at MassAI.
• [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.
• [Mar. 2024] I’ll be Head of Networking at UMass Data Science Club this semester!
• [Feb. 2024] I’ve joined the SIMS Lab at UMass Amherst.