Nilay Patel
I don't have an office, but you can find me in Santa Clara, CA
I’m a second year PhD student working with Jeff Flanigan at UC Santa Cruz. Previously I worked at Amazon AI with the AGI team on problems in open-domain QA. Previously previously I worked on computer vision, specifically semantic segmentation with Piyush Kumar at CGI.
You can reach me at <firstname> at ucsc dot edu or by clicking the mail button at the top left.
research interests
I have a wide range of interests, but primarily work in the intersection of mathematics and AI/NLP on problems such as automated theorem proving and autoformalization. Currently I am working on a project in autoformalization of mathematics into a formal language like Lean.
I also enjoy learning math and applying it in fun/novel ways to AI.
news
| Jun 9, 2025 | Started internship with Google AI NYC, working on tool use in LLMs. |
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| Mar 15, 2024 | Paper accepted to NAACL 2024: Towards Improved Multi-Source Attribution for Long-Form Answer Generation |
| Oct 13, 2023 | New preprint: A New Approach Towards Autoformalization |
| Sep 25, 2023 | Forming Trees with Treeformers published at RANLP 2023 |
| Jun 19, 2023 | Joined the question-answering team at Alexa AI as an Applied Scientist Intern. |