Adam Davies
Doctoral Researcher at INVITE AI Institute
Oak Park, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Davies is a PhD candidate at UIUC (expected Spring 2026) who researches NLP, mechanistic interpretability, cognitive science, OOD generalization, and causal machine learning to build a cognitive science of AI. He combines theoretical work—introducing sparse autoencoders and causal probing frameworks—with applied studies on LLM steering, simulation for education and social science, and synthetic-data augmentation for robustness. His publications span NeurIPS, ICML, COLM, AAAI and Frontiers in AI, and his internships include focused deep-learning research at Microsoft. With nine years of experience across interdisciplinary teams, he translates interpretability insights into methods that predict and improve models’ behavior under distribution shift. A less obvious strength is his track record in collaborating with social scientists to operationalize socially responsible model design, linking technical interpretability to real-world impact.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (8)
mirroring10
orientation10
display-manager10
pyobjc10
python10
brightness10
macos9
objective-c9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
univ-of-utah-marriott-library-apple/display_manager
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
An open-source Python library which can modify your Mac's display settings manually or automatically.
Contributions:262 commits, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
python-libraryobjective-cpyobjcpythondisplay-manager
ahdavies6/ahdavies6.github.io
Sep 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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