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Education

First Class BSc (Hons) in Discrete Mathematics, University of Warwick, 2023
- Department prize for the best overall graduating BSc student in Discrete Mathematics
Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Maryland, 2028 (expected)

Work experience

Summer 2022: Summer Intern
- Goldman Sachs
- Worked across multiple teams to aggregate data sources and definitions
- Deployed the code to production; creating, testing and developing my own dataset which is updated automatically
Spring 2021: Spring Intern
- Goldman Sachs
- Created an algorithmic strategy to trade natural gas future contracts in a team using Python

Skills

Python
- Machine Learning
Java
SQL

Publications

[Re] End-to-End Algorithm Synthesis with Recurrent Networks: Logical Extrapolation Without Overthinking

Sean McLeish and Long Tran-Thanh, McLeish (2023). "[Re] End-to-end Algorithm Synthesis with Recurrent Networks: Logical Extrapolation Without Overthinking." ReScience Volume 9 Issue 2.

Benchmarking ChatGPT on Algorithmic Reasoning

Sean McLeish, Avi Schwarzschild and Tom Goldstein, McLeish (2024). "Benchmarking ChatGPT on Algorithmic Reasoning." arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.03441.

Transformers Can Do Arithmetic with the Right Embeddings

Sean McLeish, Arpit Bansal, Alex Stein, Neel Jain, John Kirchenbauer, Brian R. Bartoldson, Bhavya Kailkhura, Abhinav Bhatele, Jonas Geiping, Avi Schwarzschild and Tom Goldstein, McLeish (2024). "Transformers Can Do Arithmetic with the Right Embeddings." arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.17399.

The CLRS-Text Algorithmic Reasoning Language Benchmark

Larisa Markeeva, Sean McLeish, Borja Ibarz, Wilfried Bounsi, Olga Kozlova, Alex Vitvitskyi, Charles Blundell, Tom Goldstein, Avi Schwarzschild and Petar Veličković, Markeeva (2024). "The CLRS-Text Algorithmic Reasoning Language Benchmark." arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.04229.

Teaching

CMSC 250 Discrete Structures TA

Achievements

Department prize for the best overall graduating BSc student in Discrete Mathematics (2023)
UKMT Gold Award Winner (2019)