Stan DeLaurentiis
Applied AI · Plasma Physics · New York
Now building in AI and plasma physics — mostly pointing transformers at turbulent fluids and seeing what they get wrong. Before this it was fluid simulations of binary black hole systems. On leave from Columbia. Based in New York.
things i've built
- Quorum — adversarial peer review for research papers, with reviewers that write and execute Python to verify or falsify the numerical claims
- master-annotator — drop in an annotated PDF, get a pull request on your paper's repo with the reviewer marks applied as LaTeX edits
latest writing →
| May 2026 | What a foundation model breaks on plasma |
| May 2026 | A plasma physics paper, with Claude |
news
- Mar 2025 Hertz Fellowship Finalist — top 5% of U.S. STEM PhD applicants
- Feb 2025 First-author paper published in The Astrophysical Journal — relativistic binary precession
- Nov 2024 Completed MPhil in Applied Mathematics at the University of Cambridge
- Jul 2023 First-author paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society — gaseous dynamical friction in AGN discs
- May 2023 Graduated Columbia College — B.A. Astrophysics with Honors, Magna Cum Laude; Phi Beta Kappa
- Mar 2023 Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- Jan 2023 Named Gates Cambridge Scholar — press: Columbia Spectator · URF · Columbia College · Physics Dept
- Oct 2018 Semi-finalist at the International Chinese Bridge (汉语桥) Mandarin Competition — U.S. team representative, top 20 of 110+ countries · press