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California Institute of Technology

2025 Caltech Cross Country Roster

Richard Hoffman (he/him)

  • Height 6-3
  • Year Junior
  • Hometown Simi Valley, Calif.
  • High School Westlake
  • Major Mechanical Engineering & Electrical Engineering

Biography

Research and STEM Activities
Summer intern at Amazon... Anthropic Campus Ambassador... Submitted research paper to NeurIPS 2025... Researcher in Prof. Tony Yue Yu group on LLMs for proof solving and Prof. Adam Wierman group on attacks on stochastic bandits... Was a research intern at CU Boulder in the Autonomous Robots Perception Group under Professor Christoffer Heckman where he worked on autonomous model cars and created neural networks... Completed a UCSB Summer Research program plotting light curve of eclipsing binary SW-LAC using Python... Was a market research intern at Modulus, researching industry-relevant information in the materials science area.

Prior to Caltech
Academic Honors: National Honor Society... USACO participant (Silver)... CALICO Informatics Competition participant (10th).
Athletic Honors: Member of School-Record 4x800 team.

Personal
Chose Caltech because of the close-knit community and the brilliant, passionate and friendly students; also valued the invaluable resources and opportunities provided through the school... In free time likes to play piano and read... Fan of Oreo cookies.

Historical Player Information

  • 2023First-Year

    6'3"
  • 2024Sophomore

    6'3"
  • 2025Junior

    6'3"