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Name Hamidreza Amirzadeh
Label Mechanistic interpretability and AI Safety Researcher
Email h.amirzadeh1378@gmail.com
Url https://hamid-amir.github.io/
Summary AI Master student at Sharif University of technology, focusing on Mechanistic Interpretability with the hope of making LLMs more transparent.

Work

  • 2024.04 - 2024.09
    Remote Research Collaborator
    Tilburg University, Netherlands
    Investigated how different language models use multiple contextual cues to disambiguate grammatical tasks.
    • Language Models
    • Interpretability
    • Context Mixing
    • Activation Patching
  • 2024.03 - 2024.09
    Remote Research Collaborator
    IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (NLPnorth lab)
    Developed a more complete lang2vec system to improve multilingual models performance.
    • Multilingual NLP
    • Classical Machine Learning pipelines
  • 2022.09 - Present
    Master Student
    Sharif University of technology, Iran
    Focusing on interpretability of transformer based language models
    • Mechanistic Interpretability
    • Transformer Models
    • AI Safety

Education

  • 2022.09 - Present

    Tehran, Iran

    Master
    Sharif University of technology
    CE, Artificial Intelligence
    • Mechanistic Interpretability
    • Transformer Models
    • AI Safety
  • 2017.09 - 2021.09

    Tehran, Iran

    BSc
    Tehran Polytechnic (Amirkabir University of Technology)
    Mechanical Engineering
    • Control Engineering
    • Dynamical Systems
    • Signal Processing

Publications

Skills

AI Safety Research
Mechanistic Interpretability
Transformer Models
Programming
Python
PyTorch
Functional Programming
Git
Bash
Linux
LaTeX
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Natural Language Processing
Security and Privacy in ML
Convex Optimization

Languages

Persian
Native
English
Fluent

Interests

Academic Interests
Alignment
Mechanistic Interpretability
Robustness
Transparency
Circuit Analysis
Other Interests
Linux
Reading Fictional books, favourite one: The Razor's Edge, by William Somerset Maugham
Playing Video Games, favourite one: Red Dead Redemption II