Asher Trockman

Asher Trockman

I'm a research scientist at Google in New York, where I work on deep learning, mostly on language models. Recently, I did a PhD at Carnegie Mellon University advised by Zico Kolter, where I worked on various topics in deep learning, including robustness, architecture design, initialization, and security.

Previously, I have investigated natural experiments on open-source software in the Socio-Technical Research Using Data Excavation Lab at CMU, and have worked on detecting surface features in orbital imagery of Mars at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Experience

Google Research
Research Scientist
2025 –
Google Research
Research Intern
Summer 2024
Microsoft Research
Research Intern (Physics of AGI) ❤️
Summer 2023
Bosch Center for AI
Machine Learning Research Intern
Summer 2022
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Machine Learning & Instrument Autonomy Group
Research Assistant (Caltech SURF)
Summer 2018
Carnegie Mellon University
Institute for Software Research
Research Assistant (REUSE)
Summer 2017

Activities

Teaching AssistantDeep Learning Systems Fall 2021 & 2022
Student CoordinatorCMU AI Seminar 2022
CoordinatorSIGBOVIK 2022 & 2021

Education

Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D. Computer Science
2019 – 2025
University of Evansville
B.S. Computer Science & B.S. Mathematics
2016 – 2019