Hi I'm Royce,


Building Spiral Works, an early stage moonshot research lab I founded and lead. Fuzzing (of all kinds) enthusiast.


Current interests:

            philosophy of logic ────────── category theory
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       epistemology                               ║
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 philosophy of ─────────────────── mechanistic interpretability
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    culture theory ─────────────────────────── startups
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            ╚═════════ computational creativity
        

> Career

Computer Science          @ UMich

Founder/CEO               @ Spiral Works

Researcher, Speech Models @ UPenn

Jr. Associate             @ Korea Investment Partners

Founder Fellow            @ Ripple Ventures

ML Intern, R&D            @ AbbVie

ML + gravitational waves  @ CERN


> Research

Towards Understanding Creativity in Language Models: Algorithms and Theory
{Samuel Schapiro, Royce Moon, Aishik Sanyal} @ Spiral Works
Manuscript in progress


A Mathematical Framework for Evaluating the Creativity of Ideas
{Samuel Schapiro, Royce Moon, Aishik Sanyal} @ Spiral Works


Leveraging Text to Adapt Speech Models in Low-Resource Medical Domains
Royce Moon, Jiyoun Song @ UMich, UPenn
Manuscript in progress