Sincxpress Education is a STEM education company founded by Dr. Mike X Cohen that produces online courses and textbooks on applied mathematics, deep learning, and mechanistic interpretability for AI safety. Its courses have reached over 300,000 learners worldwide.
Sincxpress Education is a STEM education company founded by Dr. Mike X Cohen that produces online courses and textbooks on applied mathematics, deep learning, and mechanistic interpretability for AI safety. Its courses have reached over 300,000 learners worldwide.
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Updated 05/18/26Sincxpress Education SRL is a Romania-registered microenterprise founded in August 2022 by Dr. Mike X Cohen, a former tenured associate professor of neuroscience at the Donders Institute in the Netherlands. Cohen left academia in 2022 to focus full-time on democratizing high-quality STEM education through online courses, textbooks, and intensive teaching programs. The organization produces self-paced video courses spanning mathematics (linear algebra, calculus, statistics), scientific coding (Python, MATLAB), signal processing, deep learning, and large language models. Most courses run 30 to 90+ hours and include extensive code examples hosted on GitHub. Cohen has also authored several detailed textbooks (300-700 pages each) to accompany his courses. A key focus area with direct AI safety relevance is mechanistic interpretability. Sincxpress offers a 92+ hour course on LLM mechanisms that covers transformer architecture, self-attention, training pipelines, technical AI safety, and mechanistic interpretability methods using PyTorch. This course was developed in part with funding from Open Philanthropy (now Coefficient Giving), which granted Sincxpress Education funding for mechanistic interpretability course development. Mike X Cohen also serves as a research consultant for PIBBSS, an AI safety fellowship organization, and has participated in the High Impact Professionals impact accelerator. Through Udemy, Thinkific, Pluralsight, YouTube, and INCF training programs, Sincxpress has reached over 300,000 learners worldwide. The company operates as a one-person microenterprise, with Cohen as the sole administrator, shareholder, and employee.
Theory of Change
Updated 05/18/26Sincxpress Education aims to reduce AI risk by dramatically lowering the barriers to entry for understanding how large language models actually work. By making rigorous, accessible courses on LLM internals and mechanistic interpretability available to hundreds of thousands of learners globally, the organization increases the supply of technically skilled individuals capable of contributing to AI safety and interpretability research. More researchers and engineers with deep mechanistic understanding of AI systems could accelerate progress on alignment and safety work.
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Updated 05/18/26A book and accompanying code by Mike X Cohen that presents 50 machine learning projects designed to investigate transformer-based large language model mechanisms through data analysis, visualization, and experimentation.
A 90+ hour Udemy course by Mike X Cohen that builds and trains transformer-based large language models in PyTorch while teaching LLM architectures, training pipelines, and mechanistic interpretability methods for understanding and dissecting models like GPT and BERT.
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