Alfonso Amayuelas

Alfonso Amayuelas

PhD student @ UC Santa Barbara

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I am currently a researcher at Stanford HAI and the Stanford Digital Economy Lab with Prof. Alex Sandy Pentland, supported by the Institute for Decentralized AI.

Formally, a Computer Science Ph.D. student in the NLP Lab at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), where I am advised by Professor William Wang, and I am lucky to be funded by the Quantum Foundry Trainee Fellowship. Previously, I completed a Master’s degree in Data Science at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and a double Bachelor’s program in Computer Science and Telecommunication Systems Engineering at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

My research interests spans through a wide range of topics in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence. During my PhD I have done work in (1) Understanding LLM capabilities, (2) Agent-based systems and Agent Communication and Cooperation, (3) Applications of LLMs

I am always open for a conversation, new ideas and projects. If you are interested in any of the topics that I cover or would like to have a chat, feel free to contact me.

News

Jun 23, 2026
New Preprint
New preprint released: Heuresis: Search Strategies for Autonomous AI Research Agents Across Quality, Diversity and Novelty is now available on arXiv (arxiv).
May 17, 2026
New Preprint
New preprint released: Learning POMDP World Models from Observations with Language-Model Priors is now available on arXiv (arxiv).
Apr 14, 2026
Joined Stanford HAI
Joined the Stanford Digital Economy Lab in collaboration with the Institute for Decentralized AI
Apr 6, 2026
New Preprint
Check out the latest paper –> Planning to Explore: Curiosity-Driven Planning for LLM Test Generation (arxiv).
Mar 6, 2026
Talk at USC ISI
Gave a talk for the NLP Seminar at the Information Sciences Institute from the University of Southern California. Recording available here.

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The limits of my language mean the limits of my world
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein