Devan Shah

Princeton CS '26

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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:

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.


selected publications

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    SpectraLDS: Provable Distillation for Linear Dynamical Systems
    Devan Shah, Shlomo Fortgang, Sofiia Druchyna, and Elad Hazan
    NeurIPS 2025
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    FutureFill: Fast Generation from Convolutional Sequence Models
    Naman Agarwal, Xinyi Chen, Evan Dogariu, Devan Shah , and 5 more authors
    ICLR 2026
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    UpSkill: Mutual Information Skill Learning for Structured Response Diversity in LLMs
    Devan Shah*, Owen Yang*, Daniel Yang, Chongyi Zheng , and 1 more author
    NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Scaling Environments for Agents

news

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.
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.