Hi there! I’m Menon, a junior at Princeton University studying CS and Math.
I currently work on…

• Robotic Intelligence in the Princeton Robotic Intelligence and Systems Lab under the advisory of Dhruv Shah @ Princeton
• Reinforcement Learning in the Computational Cognitive Science Lab under the advisory of Tom Griffiths and Dilip Arumugam @ Princeton
• LLM-Based Kernel Autogeneration in the Dao AI Lab under the advisory of Tri Dao @ Together AI/Princeton and Han Guo @ MIT

I have previously worked on...

• Human-AI Complementarity through SPAR under the advisory of Rishub Jain @ Google DeepMind
• Mechanistic Interpretability with the Princeton Natural and Artificial Minds Initiative
• Optimization for asset generation in Infinigen with the Princeton Vision & Learning Lab

and dabbled in industry at...

• Artemis Ops as an LLM and Backend Software Engineering Intern
• Palantir’s Winter Defense Tech Research Fellowship

Research Interests

I’m currently most interested in reinforcement learning and robotics foundation models, but also dabble in reasoning and state space models.

Other Work

You can find my past projects and research here. Some highlights include…

• Evidence Against LLM Homogenization in Creative Writing
• Modular Counts, Smarter Programs: Enhancing Transformer Program Generalization with Structured Biases
• Video Reverse-Engineering in Frontier Foundation Models: Are We Getting There?
• RotoSLAM: Improving SLAM Scale Consistency for Rotational Motion

Awards & Honors

3rd Overall Anthropic Invitational Alignment Hackathon 2025
2nd Overall UChicago Trading Competitions 2024
Princeton Top U-20 Scorer Putnam 2023