Gilad Turok

Hi , I’m Gilad. I’m a Computer Science PhD student at Cornell University , supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. I am fortunate to work with Professors Volodymyr Kuleshov and Chris De Sa.

My research is currently focused on designing diffusion language models for parallel text generation . I’m broadly interested in:

• Deep generative models: diffusion models, flow matching, LLMs
• Probabilistic foundations: sampling, inference, measure transport
• Applications: AI4Science and efficient ML systems

Previously I interned at Uber applying RL to experimentation. Before grad school, I spent two wonderful years at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute with Dr. Bob Carpenter. Before that, I graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Applied Mathematics.