Portrait of Rachel Lawrence

Rachel Lawrence

Researcher

About

As a postdoctoral research fellow at MSR Cambridge, I work in the Machine Intelligence area, studying generative models and exploring the reasoning capabilities of large language models. I am interested in building trustworthy automated systems which are equipped with logical and mathematical problem-solving tools.

I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, where I studied problems at the intersection of algorithms, dynamical systems, graph theory, and combinatorics. My research often works to bridge the gap between theory and practice, with applications in fields including machine learning, chemical reaction networks, matrix completion, and the inverse eigenvalue problem on graphs.