Eshaan Nichani

Eshaan Nichani is a final-year PhD student at Princeton University, advised by Jason D. Lee and Yuxin Chen. His research focuses on the theory of deep learning, from understanding the statistical and computational limits of shallow neural networks trained with SGD, to proving learning guarantees for transformers in order to model how various capabilities arise in LLMs during training. He is a recipient of the IBM PhD Fellowship and the NDSEG Fellowship, and has interned at the Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Mathematics. Previously, Eshaan received his B.S in Math and Computer Science and his M.Eng in EECS at MIT.