About Me
I am a second-year PhD student in the UT Austin Computational Linguistics Group. I am fortunate to be advised by Kyle Mahowald. I work on interpretability, with a focus on what the study of language model internals can tell us more broadly about language and cognition.
Previously, I graduated from Cornell University Summa Cum Laude, with degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Computational Cognitive Science (the latter through the College Scholar Program). During my undergraduate studies, I was fortunate enough to work with Dr. Morten H. Christiansen and Dr. Eugene Vinitsky utilizing Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning to study idiolects in human language. I have also spent time at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratories working on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.
Education
- BA in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computational Cognitive Science, Cornell University, 2020 - 2024
- PhD in Computational Linguistics, Minor in Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, 2024 - 2029
Selected Papers
- Sasha Boguraev, Christopher Potts, Kyle Mahowald. Causal Interventions Reveal Shared Structure Across English Filler–Gap Constructions ArXiv Preprint.
- Sasha Boguraev, Ben Lipkin, Leonie Weissweiler, Kyle Mahowald. Models Can and Should Embrace the Communicative Nature of Human-Generated Math. 4th MATH-AI Workshop at NeurIPS’24.
- Sasha Boguraev, What Do You Mean by That? - Idiolects, Casual Miscommunication, and the Evolutionary Fitness of Languages, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, 2024.
News
- August 2024 - Started PhD at UT Austin
- May 2024 - Graduated Cornell!
- May 2024 - Defended Undergraduate Thesis, What Do You Mean by That? - Idiolects, Casual Miscommunication, and the Evolutionary Fitness of Languages, awarded Summa Cum Laude Honors.
In the Media
- I was named one of the Cornell Arts and Sciences Extraordinary Seniors, and had a brief profile written on my time at Cornell.