Dmitrii Krasheninnikov

Financial support to improve Dmitrii’s research productivity during his PhD.

We are providing financial support to Dmitrii, a PhD student at Cambridge advised by David Krueger, to improve his research productivity during his PhD. We have previously made several grants providing supplementary funding to graduate students. I've outlined my rationale for this kind of grant in the May 2021 report, so I will focus on what's unique about Dmitrii's case.

Dmitrii's past research shows a clear interest in working on important topics in AI safety. Moreover, I'm particularly excited that he is being advised by David Krueger (who the LTFF has also previously supported). I generally expect PhDs to be more successful when there is strong overlap between the research interests of the student and advisor, which I expect to be the case here.