Kaarel was in the MATS Winter 2023 Cohort under the mentorship of John Wentworth. He is working on the interpretability agenda outlined in “Searching for a model's concepts by their shape – a theoretical framework" as a theorist at Cadenza Labs. Kaarel has undergraduate degrees in mathematics and in linguistics & philosophy from MIT and is currently on leave from graduate school in mathematics at Caltech.
Walter was in the MATS Winter 2023 Cohort under the mentorship of John Wentworth. At Cadenza Labs, he splits his time between being a team lead and research engineering. With other collaborators, his team created an open-source library, where Walter is a main contributor. Before starting his PhD in ML, Walter was working as software engineer for a couple of years after graduating in CS.