Hi, I'm Kevin! Welcome to my webpage. I am a PhD student at Berkeley AI Research under Pieter Abbeel and Sergey Levine. Before that I did my undergrad + master's at MIT CSAIL, under Phillip Isola.

My interests are in understanding deep learning and scalable self-improving systems. Generally, my prior research has been in reinforcement learning and generative modelling. That said, the world is vast, and there are many things worth a study.

I like to write to think. This blog contains mostly thoughts for my own thinking, but you are free to browse around.

In the past, I spent a year as a researcher at Cross Labs investigating open-ended learning. At Sizigi, I built AI-powered artistic tools. Before that, I worked on generative models at Autodesk Research and was on the reinforcement learning team at OpenAI.

If you are interested in the topics above, shoot me an email (hi at kvfrans.com)! It helps if you've been brainstorming a specific idea or started some preliminary work; we'll have a starting point to discuss.

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