Gabriel Sargent

I am a third-year PhD student in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I am fortunate to be advised by Professors Yufeng Liu, Will Wei Sun, and Zhengwu Zhang. I received my B.S. in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame.

Email: gsargent@unc.edu

CV

Research Interests

• Statistical inference in adaptive experiments
• Evaluation of large language models
• Prediction-powered inference

Publications

• Prediction-Powered Adaptive Inference with Pretrained AI Models for Contextual Bandits.
  Gabriel Sargent, Will Wei Sun, Zhengwu Zhang, and Yufeng Liu.
  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026.