Devan Shah
Princeton CS '26
Hi! I am Devan Shah, a recent graduate of Princeton, where I am very grateful to have been advised by Prof. Elad Hazan. I am broadly interested in information flow within LLMs, accelerating inference of State Space Models, and LLMs for mathematics.
Some notable things worth mentioning:
- Thesis in convex training & fast inference of SSMs (SpectraLDS, FutureFill).
- Excited by the problems and promise of LLM super-human teaching.
- Recipient of the Phillip Goldman '86 Senior Prize (Princeton's top CS honor) and the Lore von Jaskowsky Memorial Prize (Princeton SEAS's top research honor).
I’ve had the pleasure of interning and researching at Google DeepMind, Jane Street, and TikTok/ByteDance. Outside research, I’ve been honored to lead Princeton ACM.
Feel free to reach out at devan.shah [at] princeton [dot] edu.
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| May 26, 2026 | Honored to receive the Phillip Goldman ‘86 Senior Prize in Computer Science (CS department’s top honor), the Lore von Jaskowsky Memorial Prize (SEAS top prize for undergraduate research), and the Accenture Prize in Computer Science at Princeton Class Day 2026. |
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| Feb 02, 2026 | Started as a Student Researcher on Google DeepMind Frontier AI, working on improving LLM pretraining. |
| Oct 15, 2025 | FutureFill accepted at ICLR 2026! |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Two papers accepted at NeurIPS 2025! SpectraLDS and UpSkill (NeurIPS Workshop on Scaling Environments for Agents). |
| May 15, 2025 | Excited to soon be starting a Quantitative Research internship at Jane Street. |