Ethan Shen

Undergraduate Student @ University of Washington

ethans03 [at] cs.washington.edu

Hi! I am a undergraduate student at the University of Washington majoring in Computer Science with minors in Applied Mathematics and History. I currently work as a research assistant at RAIVN Lab mentored by Aditya Kusupati under Prof. Ali Farhadi. I am broadly interested in how models understand information through representation, model architecture, and training.

Recent highlights

[Sep, 2023] Our paper Are “Hierarchical” Visual Representations Hierarchical? has been accepted to the Workshop on Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations at NeurIPS 2023!

Selected publications

Are “Hierarchical” Visual Representations Hierarchical?

Ethan Shen, Ali Farhadi, Aditya Kusupati

Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations, NeurIPS 2023

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Projects

Generative Visual Question Answering

I worked with a two classmates to create an experimental Visual Question Answering dataset with future shifted images generated using Stable Diffusion 2.0.

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Mutorials

I helped found and develop Mutorials, an ongoing online science trainer to make SAT and AP test preparation fun and accessible.

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Other

I like to study history. Here are some essays that I enjoyed writing.

Gregory of Tours and Einhard: Clovis and Charlemagne

I compare the credibility and accuracy of Einhard and Gregory of Tours as sources for Clovis and Charlemagne. I argue that Gregory of Tours was more credible than Einhard despite Einhard's proximity to Charlemagne.

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The Detroit Riots of 1967

I contend that the Detroit Riots of 1967 were primarily caused by the decentralization of Detroit's automobile industry in the decade prior. I also examine other causes.

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