Logan Lawrence
PhD Candidate @ UMass
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AboutLogan Lawrence

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I'm a first-year CS PhD Candidate in the [Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences] at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I am advised by [Grant Van Horn].

Before UMass, I was a Senior Data Engineer working at [Saifr] in [Fidelity Labs]. There, I was the project lead for GOST Crawl, a proprietary search engine which uses NLP to index derogatory web information. I was also the lead of the Science team.

I am always on the lookout for collaborators on research projects. Reach out if you are interested in the fields of model compression (especially for LLMs), active learning, model and dataset debiasing, QA, article summarization, TDA, or anything potentially related.

[CV]

Research

Generate, Transduct, Adapt: Iterative Transduction with VLMs

Oindrila Saha, Logan Lawrence, Grant Van Horn, Subhransu Maji

Preprint, December 2024 [Paper]

Efficient Transformer Knowledge Distillation: A Performance Review

Nathan Brown, Ashton Williamson, Tahj Anderson, Logan Lawrence

EMNLP 2023 [Paper]

Experience

Senior Data Engineer

Saifr (Fidelity Labs)

Boston, MA

January 2024 - current

Data Engineer

Giant Oak Inc.

Arlington, VA

June 2020 - January 2024

Research Assistant, SVCL

University of California San Diego

La Jolla, CA

November 2020 - current

Research Assistant, Wearables Lab

Rice University

Houston, TX

April 2018 - May 2019

Education

Ph.D. Computer Science

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Amherst, MA

August 2024 - current

M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, CA

September 2019 - June 2021

B.S. Computer Science

Rice University

Houston, TX

August 2015 - May 2019

B.S. Electrical Engineering

Rice University

Houston, TX

August 2015 - May 2019