Sebastian Carter

Undergraduate student

Mathematics and Data Science Major, Computer Science Minor

University of Hawai'i at Hilo

Email: sjc7 at hawaii dot edu

About me

My name is Sebastian Carter, I'm an enthusiastic and highly motivated student at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo, studying Mathematics, Data Science and Computer Science.

I have been interested in machine learning for a long time, and I find the intersection of psychology, math, computer science and data science that is in AI safety the most interesting, maybe alongside reinforcement learning (The closest thing we have to real human learning!)

I'm extremely passionate about programming, I really love writing code for fun especially when it comes to shell scripting! There's just something satisfying about automating tedious stuff!


languages of choice:

  • shell scripting (bash / zsh mostly)
  • python
  • also have a bunch of experience with markdown and latex:
    • I write all my notes (for classes and for life!) in markdown (either using vim or obsidian)
    • I study mathematics, so all my math notes and homework assignments are done in latex
    • Have also used latex for my published papers (see below for more details)

other languages I've had some experience with:

  • c++
  • c
  • javascript (most recently nodejs and react)
  • html5
  • scala

Publications



AI-Assisted Scientific Data Collection with Iterative Human Feedback

Travis Mandel, James Boyd, Sebastian J. Carter, Randall H. Tanaka, Taishi Nammoto

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2021



Using the Crowd to Prevent Harmful AI Behaviour

Travis Mandel, Jahnu Best, Randall H. Tanaka, Hiram Temple, Chansen Haili, Sebastian J. Carter, Kayla Schlechtinger, Roy Szeto

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 4, CSCW2, Article 97 (October 2020). Simultaneously appeared in ACM Conferrence on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) 22020.