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Dr. Sarah Chen
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Sarah Chen is an Assistant Professor at MIT CSAIL specializing in mechanistic interpretability of large language models. Her work on circuit-level analysis of transformer attention heads has been cited over 4,000 times. She leads the Interpretability Lab, developing open-source tools for neural network analysis. Previously a research scientist at Anthropic, she now focuses on scalable interpretability methods for frontier models.
MIT CSAIL, Center for AI Safety, EleutherAI (advisor)
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Sparse Feature Circuits in Large Language Models
NeurIPS 2025 · 2025
Automated Circuit Discovery via Causal Scrubbing
ICML 2025 · 2025
Attention Head Taxonomy: A Unified Framework
ICLR 2024 · 2024
Scaling Monosemanticity in Language Models
NeurIPS 2024 · 2024
Toward Comprehensive Mechanistic Interpretability
AAAI 2024 · 2024
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