Speaker
Dr. Mara Velasquez
Helix AI Lab
Speaks at
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Curriculum Schedules for Trillion-Token Pretraining
September 15, 2026 09:00 · Aurora Hall
How the order you feed data in changes what a trillion-token model ends up knowing.
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Robustness Certificates for Open-Weight Deployments
September 16, 2026 15:00 · Room 210
What guarantees you can and cannot make once model weights are public.
Mara Velasquez leads the pretraining group at Helix AI Lab, where she studies how optimization dynamics shape what large models can learn. Before Helix she built distributed training systems for scientific simulation. She is a frequent contributor to open pretraining recipes.