Core Francisco Park

Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard Physics

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corefranciscopark@g.harvard.edu

Cambridge, MA, USA

Hi! I’m Core Francisco Park (pronounced Corae), I am a 5th year graduate student at Harvard Physics.

I work on developping robust, reliable and deployable ML tools and methods for the physical sciences. I define robust, reliable and deployable in a more specific way than “good” or “well performing”:

  • Robustness: The model is expected to work when some assumptions of the data are not met. Out-of-distribution generalization in method-space.
  • Reliable: Different sanity checks on the model has been done, and one can estimate the undertainty from the outputs.
  • Deployable: The model ends up getting used and is not just a project you would archive after publishing.

Of course, these are goals which I think through and try to achieve.

Given these principles, I worked on different real data problems with ML and statistics, ranging from studies of a brain smaller than a grain of salt to cosmic volumes and from very theoretical studies to very practical studies.

Feel free to ask me anything!

-Core

latest news

Jul 03, 2024 Tunadorable made a video about our paper: “Emergence of Hidden Capabilities: Exploring Learning Dynamics in Concept Space”
Jul 02, 2024 I gave a talk about our project diff4stats at EAS 2024: “Probabilistic Completion of Astrophysical Fields for Robust Statistics with Diffusion Models”
Jun 27, 2024 Our paper “Emergence of Hidden Capabilities: Exploring Learning Dynamics in Concept Space” from our project concept_learning is on arxiv.
Jun 20, 2024 I gave a talk about our project vdm4cdm_3d at the AstroAI Workshop 2024: “3D probabilistic reconstruction of the local dark matter from galaxies”
Jun 17, 2024 A paper from our project vdm4cdm_3d has been accepted at ICML 2024 Workshop Ai4Science: “3D Reconstruction of Dark Matter Fields with Diffusion Models: Towards Application to Galaxy Surveys”