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Max Whitton

PhD Student in Computer Science · Boston University
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About

I’m a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Boston University, where I research deep learning and vision–language models with a focus on data and pretraining. Last May, I graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Computer Science, and I worked in industry building AI-driven tools deployed across a global engineering organization. I enjoy working at the intersection of research and real-world impact, from multimodal AI systems to large-scale data and model deployment.

Publications

Baby-VLM-V2: Toward Developmentally Grounded Pretraining and Benchmarking of Vision Foundation Models
Shengao Wang*, Wenqi Wang*, Zecheng Wang*, Max Whitton*, Michael Wakeham, Arjun Chandra, Joey Huang, Pengyue Zhu, Helen Chen, David Li, Jeffrey Li, Shawn Li, Andrew Zagula, Amy Zhao, Andrew Zhu, Sayaka Nakamura, Yuki Yamamoto, Jerry Jun Yokono, Aaron Mueller, Bryan A. Plummer, Kate Saenko, Venkatesh Saligrama, Boqing Gong
Under Review for CVPR 2026

Education

Boston University — Ph.D. in Computer Science
September 2025 – Present
Dean’s Fellowship · Advisor: Boqing Gong
Cornell University — B.S. in Computer Science
August 2021 – May 2025
magna cum laude · GPA: 3.85