Jerry Ngo

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

ngop at mit dot edu

I am a research associate at McGovern Institute and MIT BCS, supervised by Jim DiCarlo. During my undergraduate, my research journey took root at MIT CSAIL, where I still involve as a frequent collaborator. At CSAIL, I was fortunate to be supervised by Phillip Isola, Yoon Kim, and Aleksander Mądry.

With a broad research goal of understanding AI, I ground my works at the intersection of computer vision and neuro/cognitive science. Currently, my projects are focused on quantifying behavioral similarities and disparities between vision models and human behavior (1, 2). I am also interested in other topics like multimodality/representation learning, and generative modeling.

news

Apr 10, 2023 First paper got accepted for publication at ICLR 2023 Tiny Papers track.
Jan 6, 2023 Join the MIT BCS as a research technician.
Jun 27, 2022 Join the MIT Summer Research Program ‘22.
Jan 3, 2022 Join MIT CSAIL as a visiting student.
Jun 27, 2021 Join the MIT Summer Research Program ‘21.

selected publications

“A journey of a thousand papers begins with a tiny paper”

  1. What Do Language Models Hear?
    Ngo, Jerry, and Kim, Yoon
    arXiv:2402.16998 2024
  2. Is CLIP Fooled by Optical Illusions?
    Ngo, Jerry, Sankaranarayanan, Swami, and Isola, Phillip
    ICRL Tiny Papers Track (Invite to Present, 32.8%) 2023