I am a second year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department of Stanford University. I am extremely fortunate to be advised by Professor Tengyu Ma and to collaborate closely with Professor Zhiyuan Li. I studied Computer Science at Columbia University as an undergraduate, and I am very grateful to have been advised by Professors Xi Chen, Henry Yuen, and Mihalis Yannakakis. I am interested in using theoretical methods to understand Large Language Models.

Publications and Preprints

Non-Asymptotic Length Generalization
Thomas Chen, Tengyu Ma, Zhiyuan Li
ICML 2025

Testing and Learning Quantum Juntas Nearly Optimally
Thomas Chen, Shivam Nadimpalli, Henry Yuen
SODA 2023, QIP 2023

Computational Hardness of the Hylland-Zeckhauser Scheme
Thomas Chen, Xi Chen, Binghui Peng, Mihalis Yannakakis
SODA 2022