Linghao Kong

Linghao Kong

PhD candidate at MIT EECS being advised by Nir Shavit

About Me

I am a fourth year PhD student at MIT EECS, where I am grateful to be under the guidance of Professor Nir Shavit as a member of the Shavit Lab. Prior to my graduate studies, I received my BA in computer science and in neuroscience from Columbia University, where I conducted research at the Peter Sims Lab.

I am curious about the internal mechanisms of large language models, from individual neurons to distributed feature representations, and how they can inform more efficient computation. I use mechanistic interpretability to uncover these principles, motivated by a broader interest in computation across both artificial and biological neural systems.

My research is supported by an IBM AI Research Grant.

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