Hi All!

My name is Chase Carstensen, I’m from southern New Hampshire, and this fall I will be continuing my education as a master’s student studying Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA. I’m passionate about education, the climate, and responsible artificial intelligence/machine learning research.

Currently, my research is focused on using machine learning and AI to assist with mathematical discovery. I’m particularly interested in its applications to combinatorial optimization.

In my free time, I enjoy listening to/playing music, playing Magic: The Gathering, and being outdoors.

News

• May 2026: I graduated from WPI with High Distinction and a dual major in Computer Science and Mathematics. I was given the Meritorious Senior Award from the WPI Mathematics Department for outstanding academic performance.
• August 2025-May 2026: I completed my Major Qualifying Project with Prof. Daniel Reichman and Prof. Gábor Sárközy. We used ML/AI to find long induced paths in the hypercube. I was awarded an Honorable Mention to the Provost’s Award for Best MQP in Computer Science.
• August 2025-January 2026: I worked with Prof. Walter Gerych’s lab on minimally invasive and efficient debiasing methods for large pre-trained models.
• May-August 2025: I participated in the University of Colorado Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program with Prof. Jugal Kalita titled “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” where we evaluated an LLM’s ability to find counterexamples to claims in graph theory.
• October-December 2024: I spent 8 weeks in Prague, Czechia, completing my Interactive Qualifying Project. We used LLMs to label historical documents in the Memory of Nations database.