Reuben Narad

Hi, I'm Reuben!

Second-year PhD student at the University of Washington, Foster School of Business.

Machine Learning × Operations Research
Mechanistic Interpretability
Past: Applied Scientist Intern @ Amazon; Software Engineer (Contract) @ OpenAI Building to Codex CLI

Resume (PDF) rnarad (at) uw.edu

Updates

July 2024: I'm starting my PhD! Wish me luck.
June 2025: Summer part 1: Doing an Applied Scientist Internship at Amazon, on the Fullfillment By Amazon Science team.
August 2025: Summer part 2: Helping build Codex CLI at OpenAI.
September 2025: Greg Brockman tweeted about my web search feature :)

Bridging the Creativity Understanding Gap: Small-Scale Human Alignment Enables Expert-Level Humor Ranking in LLMs (2025)

Kuan Lok Zhou, Jiayi Chen, Siddharth Suresh, Reuben Narad, Timothy T. Rogers, Lalit K Jain, Robert D Nowak, Bob Mankoff, Jifan Zhang
Which LLMs Get the Joke? Probing Non-STEM Reasoning Abilities with HumorBench (Submitted to ICLR 2026 under review)

Reuben Narad, Siddharth Suresh, Jiayi Chen, Pine S.L. Dysart-Bricken, Bob Mankoff, Robert Nowak, Jifan Zhang, Lalit Jain
Mechanistic Interpretability for Neural TSP Solvers (NeurIPS 2025 ML x OR conference)

Reuben Narad, Leonard Boussioux, Michael Wagner