Megha Srivastava

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phd student in computer science
@stanfordailab + applied cryptography group 🧩

[Megha Srivastava @megha_byte]

Ever wanted to generate smokey logograms from the heptapod language in the awesome sci-fi movie "Arrival" (2016)? Probably not 😅 But a few people asked for the text-to-image model I trained, so it's now on @replicate ! https://t.co/fwfzexcOh9

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Sad to hear that Ada's Technical Books in Seattle is closing this week -- it's a wonderful bookstore. I always found something obscure but interesting when I visited.

https://t.co/T4FmebqXyw

[Megha Srivastava @megha_byte]

@belindazli congrats Belinda!! 🎉😊

[Teddy @WarnerTeddy]

i mounted a tiny microphone on my apartment balcony to listen for any birds passing by and built a site to collage them as they're heard

[Joonas Virtanen @joonasvirtanen]

made a site that picks the closest rothko for how the weather feels outside your window

[Megha Srivastava @megha_byte]

Back in Seattle at #MLSys2026 to present Hawkeye, a tool for exact replication of GPU-level operations (e.g. FP16 matmul on NVIDA Hopper) on a CPU, useful for verifiable ML! 🔐

w/ Erez Badash, Dan Boneh, @komargodski
Paper: https://t.co/sj8PUIJNqu
Code: https://t.co/bjc7CWu4eZ

[Megha Srivastava @megha_byte]

My Data Sonification project mapping hourly forest data (e.g. soil moisture, temp) to the bansuri 🪈 received 1st place at @HubbardBrookNH 's data contest! 🎶🌲 It was fun figuring out how to make real-world climate data "sound" good 🙂Check it out here! https://t.co/AgqlYJLlyj

[shani 🌱 (sf) @sha_zng]

i met the woman who takes care of the wild parrots in sf

her home is filled with photos of them, close up shots, their heads tilted to the side, looking directly at the camera. she knows their routines, where they are in the city depending on the time of day. they all have names. she knows who is partnered with who. they bring her their children in the summer, when they are nesting. she feed them apples and raw sunflower seeds and walnuts. i watched one eat an apple out of her hand. his name is romeo. he brought his son with him. apparently romeo is looking for his fourth wife now.

[Edgar McGregor @edgarrmcgregor]

Eaton Fire burn scar 16 months later.

The fire blasted it's way through here at 60 MPH with temperatures of 1,500°F - 2,000°F.

California native plants rock.

[Steph Chambers @StephChambers76]

March cherry blossom Madness.

Tacoma, Washington

[Megha Srivastava @megha_byte]

Check out our paper taking a broader look at emergent misalignment in large language models, published today in @Nature !

[Owain Evans @OwainEvans_UK]

Today we publish an extended paper on emergent misalignment in Nature. We communicate our original insecure-code results to a broad audience and incorporate the findings from many other researchers. It's open access!
https://t.co/rmVICMkct7

[ProPublica @propublica]

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions execs at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.
https://t.co/nGdgCh7KC4

[Megha Srivastava @megha_byte]

@shershman @claudeai @james_y_zou Unfortunately I don't think the presentation was shared, but my slides are here: https://t.co/yw3SwCKTqa as well as a blog post about the research process! https://t.co/brfnnALUEt

[Megha Srivastava @megha_byte]

I'll be discussing work on using AI for pharmacovigilance (led by @claudeai 😉 ) as a Spotlight in #Agents4Science today at 11:00am PST!

It was really fun participating in @james_y_zou's experiment on what happens if we let an LM lead a research project https://t.co/O8v7W4Fw2K

[Megha Srivastava @megha_byte]

@alexisjross @lucy3_li @jacobandreas @DoctorJei Likewise!! 🤩

[Megha Srivastava @megha_byte]

New preprint on AI + Education! 🍎
“Modeling Student Learning with 3.8M Program Traces” 💻

When students code, their edits tell a story about their reasoning process: exploring, debugging, and tinkering 🧠

What can LMs learn from training on student edit sequences? 📚