Jannik Brinkmann

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Jannik Brinkmann is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Mannheim, Germany, advised by Christian Bartelt and Paul Swoboda. He holds an M.Sc. in Data Science (with distinction) and a B.Sc. in Computer Science, both from the University of Mannheim. His research focuses on mechanistic interpretability of neural networks, including sparse autoencoders, causal mediation analysis, and the internal mechanisms underlying multi-step reasoning and cross-lingual representations in large language models. He has worked as a visiting researcher in the interpretable neural networks group at Northeastern University under David Bau, and in the ML2 group at NYU under He He. He received a Long-Term Future Fund grant to support part-time interpretability research in collaboration with David Bau and Logan Riggs, resulting in work on improving sparse autoencoder training methods and measuring progress in dictionary learning for language model interpretability.

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