About me

I’m Adib Hasan, a research engineer at a stealth startup, where I build large-scale retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems and optimize LLM inference for speed. I am interested in alignment, performance under distribution shift, and algorithm design.

I completed my bachelors (Math & EECS) and MEng (EECS) from MIT, where I was advised by Dr. Mardavij Roozbehani and Prof. Munther Dahleh. During that time, I developed a variational pretraining framework for transformers on weather data, and an attention activation pruning based jailbreak defense for LLMs.

In between my bachelor’s and master’s, I spent two years as a quant researcher managing multi-million dollar crypto portfolios and leading a team of four. You can find more on my LinkedIn.

Beyond work, I do have some hobbies. I cook passionately to avoid starvation (proof), read dead philosophers, and lift heavy objects to maintain the illusion of control.

Lately, I’ve been thinking a bit about long-term happiness. The grandpa of philosophy said it comes from three external sources: money and power, social media followers, and chiseled abs. Unfortunately, all of them are temporary, and can be taken away at any moment. So I wonder if there’s something more permanent, a realistic, concrete internal source of happiness that can’t be touched. If you’ve figured that out, please share the wisdom. You can find me on LinkedIn.