Rohan Alur
About
I am a fourth year PhD candidate in the EECS department at MIT, where I'm fortunate to be advised by Manish Raghavan and Devavrat Shah. I am also a Principal Research Scientist at Bridgewater Associates, where I work closely with Chief Scientist Jasjeet Sekhon.
I am broadly interested in small data prediction tasks: settings in which we want to make predictions about the future, but do not have sufficient training data to apply classical statistical learning methods. I have previously worked on methods to incorporate human judgment into algorithmic predictions, and more recently have been thinking about the role of large language models in these settings.
Publications
AIA Forecaster: Technical Report
RA*, Bradly C. Stadie*, Daniel Kang, Ryan Chen, Matt McManus, Michael Rickert, Tyler Lee, Michael Federici, Richard Zhu, Dennis Fogerty, Hayley Williamson, Nina Lozinski, Aaron Linsky, Jasjeet S. Sekhon
Preprint, 2025
The Impossibility of Inverse Permutation Learning in Transformer Models
RA*, Chris Hays*, Manish Raghavan, Devavrat Shah
Preprint, 2025 | Github
Integrating Expert Judgment and Algorithmic Decision Making: An Indistinguishability Framework
RA, Loren Laine, Darrick K. Li, Dennis Shung, Manish Raghavan, Devavrat Shah | Slides | Github | Talk
Preprint, 2024
Unstable Unlearning: The Hidden Risk of Concept Resurgence in Diffusion Models
Vinith M. Suriyakumar, RA, Ayush Sekhari, Manish Raghavan, Ashia C. Wilson
Preprint, 2024
From Transparency to Accountability and Back: A Discussion of Access and Evidence in AI Auditing
Sarah H. Cen, RA
ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO), 2024
Human Expertise in Algorithmic Prediction
RA, Manish Raghavan, Devavrat Shah
Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024 | Oral Presentation (top ~0.5% of submissions) | Slides | Github | Talk
RA, Loren Laine, Darrick K. Li, Manish Raghavan, Devavrat Shah, Dennis Shung
Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023 | Spotlight Paper (top ~3% of submissions) | Slides | Github | Blog Post
The Vascular Landscape of Human Cancer
Benjamin M Kahn, Alfredo Lucas*, RA*, Maximillian D Wengyn, Gregory W Schwartz, Jinyang Li, Kathryn Sun, H Carlo Maurer, Kenneth P Olive, Robert B Faryabi, Ben Z Stanger (* denotes equal contribution)
Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2021