Matthew Shen

PhD Student at Columbia University

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SSW 1005

1255 Amsterdam Avenue

New York, NY 10027

I am a third-year PhD student in the Statistics Department at Columbia University, advised by David M. Blei. I am also a member of the Columbia Core AI Lab (CAIL). Previously, I completed B.A.s in Computer Science and Statistics at UC Berkeley, where I was fortunate to work with Jasjeet Sekhon and Chunlei Liu.

My research interests broadly span causal inference, invariant and robust machine learning, mechanistic interpretability, and adaptive experimentation. I am also interested in generative and probabilistic modeling.

Selected Publications

  1. Mechanistic Interpretability Findings That Generalize: Chaperone-Dependent Folding in ESMFold2
    Matthew Shen, Luhuan Wu, Minhuan Li, and 1 more author
    2026
    In submission
  2. Bayesian Invariant Representation Learning for Robust Prediction of Multi-Environment Data
    Matthew Shen, Luhuan Wu, and David M. Blei
    2026
    In submission
  3. NeurIPS
    Environment-Robust Representation Learning with Empirical Bayes
    Yuli Slavutsky, Matthew Shen, Bohan Wu, and 1 more author
    2026
    To appear in NeurIPS 2026
  4. NeurIPS
    Group-Aware Matrix Estimation and Latent Subspace Recovery
    Hamza Golubovic*, Matthew Shen*, Genevera Allen, and 1 more author
    2026
    To appear in NeurIPS 2026