Kunal Samanta

Hi 👋! I’m an incoming PhD Student at the University of British Columbia starting in Fall 2026, and I will be a part of the UBC NLP Group, advised by Prof. Peter West.

My research interests broadly include:

• Understanding creativity/novelty of language models in open-ended settings.
• Studying the social reasoning of frontier models in pragmatic scenarios and how we can have better user simulators.