From July 1 to Oct. 31 ’26, I am doing the CHAI (Center for Human-Compatible AI) internship under Julian Yocum (PhD student under Stuart Russell).
- On Sept. 1, we submitted Pretty Linear Liars (under review, NeurIPS 2026 InterpScience Workshop).
I got my BA in physics at Berkeley (3.910 GPA) in May ’26. I’m thankful for the stipends that have supported my studies, most notably EGE.
I also spent my last year of college at CHAI, where I was fortunate to work with Cam Allen.
- The fruits of that research will be turned into a blog post ~ late Sept. ’26.
Until late Aug. ’25, I was a particle physics researcher at the Neutrino Group at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory under Professor Hirohisa Tanaka.
- I used latent spaces to investigate the low-energy excess of electron neutrinos detected in the MiniBooNE experiment.
Before SLAC, I worked on Bayesian analysis for Mu2e under Professor Yury Kolomensky.
Before Berkeley, I wanted to experience “real life” – so I went all in and took half a year to work as a trash man. Then I went to South America for a half a year. Things like the deadly fear I felt when running from wild dogs in the desert gave me clarity on what matters in life.
I love language and spend more than half of my time speaking languages other than English: Chinese (here’s proof), Spanish, Swedish/Norwegian, Italian.
Apart from family and friends, my values have been influenced greatly by Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, Confucius’s Lunyu ( 论语 ), Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens, and, honestly, Avatar the Last Airbender. The most transformative read of my life was Joanne Baker’s 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know.
You can email me at karlcal@berkeley.edu.
