I am a second year Ph.D. student at NC State, advised by Dr. Jung-Eun Kim. I work in the broad areas of out-of-distribution generalization, reasoning, and efficiency - sometimes at their intersection. During my graduate studies, I've spent two summers working at Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Labs.

Research

Severing Spurious Correlations with Data Pruning
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025 · Spotlight🏅 (<5%)
Varun Mulchandani & Jung-Eun Kim 
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Pruning's Impact on Spurious Correlations: Using the Right Metrics the Wrong Way
Masters Thesis, 2024
Varun Mulchandani