About Me

I'm a 2nd year PhD student at Princeton University advised by Jia Deng. I received my B.S in Computer Science from Columbia University in 2024, where I was fortunate enough to do research with Professors Mark Santolucito, Kathleen McKeown, and Baishakhi Ray.

I love hiking, horror movies, peanut butter, and reading. Good reasons to contact me: research, book recs, hiking recs.

Research Interests

I study perception, memory, and reasoning in foundation models, with a particular interest in the visual and embodied capabilities required for robust interaction with the physical world. More broadly, I care about how these systems perceive, remember, and act in non-textual environments, including robotic settings.

Selected Papers

Figure from VLMs have Tunnel Vision showing the nonlocal visual reasoning tasks.

VLMs have Tunnel Vision: Evaluating Nonlocal Visual Reasoning in Leading VLMs

NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight

Shmuel Berman, Jia Deng

An evaluation suite for nonlocal visual reasoning in leading vision-language models, covering comparative perception, saccadic search, and smooth visual search.

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Figure from the zebra puzzle paper showing an example puzzle layout and clues.

Solving Zebra Puzzles Using Constraint-Guided Multi-Agent Systems

Shmuel Berman, Kathleen McKeown, Baishakhi Ray

A multi-agent framework that combines language models with a theorem prover to translate natural-language clues into structured constraints and solve zebra puzzles more reliably.

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