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Kathryn Wantlin
Ph.D., Princeton University
kw2960@princeton.edu

I am a 3rd year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Princeton University, advised by Prof. Ryan Adams. I also collaborate with Prof. Ben Eysenbach and Prof. Naomi Leonard at Princeton. Previously, I received my M.S.E. from Princeton University and my A.B from Harvard University, where my thesis was advised by Prof. David Parkes.

My research interests center around learning efficient & expressive representations for exploration and combinatorial reasoning with RL and LLMs. Recently, I’ve been working on (1) multi-task meta-IRL goal inference using contrastive RL pretraining and (2) learned-order autoregressive models for puzzle solving.

Interests

  • Self-Supervised Learning
  • Robotic Assembly
  • ARMs & Diffusion Models

Education

Princeton University
2023 - 2028
Ph.D. Computer Science
Princeton University
2021 - 2023
M.S.E. Computer Science
Harvard University
2017 - 2021
A.B. Computer Science (Economics Secondary)

Recent Publications

Consistent Zero Shot Imitation with Contrastive Goal Inference, 2026, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Kathryn Wantlin , Chongyi Zheng , Benjamin Eysenbach
BuilderBench: The Building Blocks of Intelligent Agents, 2026, Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC), RLBrew
Raj Ghugare , Roger Creus Castanyer , Catherine Ji , Kathryn Wantlin , Jin Schofield , Karthik Narasimhan , Benjamin Eysenbach
Measuring Cooperation with Counterfactual Planning, 2025, Conference on Game Theory and AI for Security (GameSec)
Samuel Barnett , Kathryn Wantlin , Ryan P. Adams
BenchMD: A Benchmark for Unified Learning on Medical Images and Sensors, 2023, ArXiv Preprint
Kathryn Wantlin , Chenwei Wu , Shih-Cheng Huang , Oishi Banerjee , Farah Dadabhoy , Veeral Vipin Mehta , Ryan Wonhee Han , Fang Cao , Raja R. Narayan , Errol Colak , Adewole Adamson , Laura Heacock , Geoffrey H. Tison , Alex Tamkin , Pranav Rajpurkar