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🎓 Short Intro: Hello there! I’m a PhD Researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen. I work with Dr. Anders Søgaard and the amazing people at CoAStaL to investigate compositionality, reasoning and understanding capabilities of AI systems like LLMs with a specific focus on interpretability and evaluation. Additionally, I am involved with the Centre of Philosophy of AI at the university.

🧠 Research Interests: I’m primarily interested in understanding compositionality in natural and artificial systems by looking at the representations & behaviours of minds and machines. My research encompasses AI, Machine Learning, Cognitive Science, linguistics, neuroscience, and philosophy- aiming to decode the mechanisms behind machine language capabilities.

👥 Volunteering: I’m also a community lead at Cohere for AI (C4AI) and host talks/socials/meetups to foster open source research in AI.

🚶🏽‍♀️‍➡️ Hobbies: When I’m not immersed in research, I enjoy playing badminton and taking long, contemplative walks to clear my mind and gain new perspectives.

Updates

Super happy to announce that our paper titled “Investigating the role of modality and training objective on representational alignment between transformers and the brain” was accepted to the Unireps Workshop at NeurIPS 2024! More details coming soon.

My work with co-author Constanza Fierro, titled “Defining Knowledge: Bridging Epistemology and Large Language Models” was accepted to EMNLP Main Conference, 2024!

The first work of my PhD- “From Words to Worlds: Compositionality for Cognitive Architectures” - was accepted to the LLMs & Cognition workshop at International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2024, Vienna. See you in July in Austria!

Our abstract for an oral presentation titled “The Completeness Problem: Beyond Human Metrics in Assessing Abilities of Cognitive Systems” was accepted to the International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (ACAIN) 2024.