About Me!
Welcome to my personal website! I'm Maya and I am a senior at UPenn in the Artificial Intelligence major. I will be applying to CS PhD programs in Fall 2025.
My research interests center on social choice theory and algorithmic game theory, with a focus on their applications to problems in learning theory, democratic decision-making, and fair resource allocation.
Current Work
Currently, I am working with Bailey Flanigan (MIT) and Aaron Roth (UPenn) on a minmax optimization algorithm for creating robust and represenative democratic decision making panels. This is a new approach the alternate dropouts problem outlined in Assos et. al.
My last project involved using conformal prediction methods to get factuality guarantees on LLM outputs to mathematical reasoning problems, which was inspired by a paper from Mohri and Hashimoto. I worked with faculty Surbhi Goel (UPenn) and Aaron Roth (UPenn) (as well as Max Rubin-Toles and Keshav Ramji). This paper filtered subsets of language model outputs using a calibrated threshold of a heuristic confidence score, and employed graphical representations of reasoning paths to ensure outputs were coherent as well as factual. We presented this work at the Stastisical Frontiers of Large Language Models workshop @ NeurIps 2024 (my first conference!) and it has been accepted to ICLR 2025.
Non-Academic Interests
My main extra-academia passions are in the performing arts! I'm the president of Penn's first and only comedy a capella group, Penn Six (or Pennsylvania Six Five-Thousand). One of my greatest joys is to write and perform both a capella arrangements and comedy skits with these beautiful people. I am also an intermittent beginner guitar player, and a frequent (and passionate) singer of musical theater soundtracks in my car and elsewhere.
People I Work(ed) With
Faculty: Surbhi Goel (Penn CS), Aaron Roth (Penn CS), Bailey Flanigan (MIT EECS)
Other Collaborators: Max Rubin-Toles (Harvard CS), Keshav Ramji (IBM Research AI)
Contact Me
- Email: [email protected]
- LinkedIn: maya-gambhir
- Google Scholar: Maya Pal Gambhir