About

Hi there! 👋 My name is Suze (pronounced: Suzie) and I’m a junior studying Computer Science at Stanford University. I get excited about natural language processing and machine learning – just finished building a language model from scratch in CS336 and recently built a file system navigator/editor for the Rasberry Pi . I’m also involved in research on interpretability research on how language models generalize from their training data and think about time, see below!

I grew up in the Netherlands and moved to the U.S. for my undergrad—Dutch undergrads seem to be rare here, so if you’re one, I’d love to connect! I’m a big fan of (Earl Grey) tea, sudokus, teaching, consuming baked goods and social dance!

Projects

	Transformer Language Model (CS336) Reimplemented BPE tokenizer, AdamW optimizer, FlashAttention, DDP, ZeRO Stage 1 sharding. Created custom training data curated from Common Crawl. Implemented reinforcement learning method GRPO. 1st in Scaling Laws Competition @ CS336 Suze van Adrichem
	SUZITI Filesystem: FAT32 Filesystem For The Rasberrry Pi Featuring custom I2C, interactive graphical display and 'laptop' enclosure Suze van Adrichem, Aditi Bhaskar Github / Demo
	BAS Buddy: AI-Agent for Climate Initiative Matching Agentic system with custom database to match companies with climate initiatives Best Prototyping, Best Use of GenAI w/ InterSystems Vector Search @ Treehacks Suze van Adrichem, Alice Heiman, Bubble Yu Github / Devpost / Demo

Research

I’m still gaining my footing in research –mostly learning, attemps at experimenting and trying not to break too much

Time in Language Models How do language models reason about time? Do they have an internal "current" time? How is the concept time derived from their training data? Suze van Adrichem, Aditi Bhaskar -- Advised by Jing Huang , Professor Diyi Yang and Christopher Potts Github / Poster

Experience

Optiver, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Software Engineer Intern, Execution Speed and Success, Summer 2025
Stanford NLP Group, Stanford CA, United States Student Researcher, Natural Language Processing and Interpretability, February 2025-Present
Multi-scale Architectures & Systems Team + CURIS, Stanford CA, United States Student Researcher, Machine Learning Systems, March 2024-June 2025
International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), Stanford CA, United States Team Competitor, September 2024-Present 1st place D2 California regional, 2nd place Northwest Pacific D2 regional (2024)
Stanford ACM, Stanford CA, United States Co-President, May 2025-Present Financial Officer, May 2024-May 2025
CS198 + Stanford Computer Science, Stanford CA, United States Teaching Assistant (Section Leader), January 2024-September 2024

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