Sarah Wiegreffe @ ICML
@sarahwiegreffe
Research in NLP (mostly LM interpretability & explainability). Incoming assistant prof @umdcs @clipumd Current postdoc @allen_ai @uwnlp Views my own.
A bit late to announce, but I’m excited to share that I'll be starting as an assistant professor at the University of Maryland @umdcs this August. I'll be recruiting PhD students this upcoming cycle for fall 2026. (And if you're a UMD grad student, sign up for my fall seminar!)
📢 @umdcs is welcoming 8 new faculty in 2025–26 with expertise in AI policy, robotics, bioinformatics, vision, language models, simulation & sound design. They’ll strengthen research & teaching across computing. Read more: go.umd.edu/New-Faculty7-2…
Go work with Abhilasha! She is an amazing researcher and person. ☺️
Life update: I’m excited to share that I’ll be starting as faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems(@mpi_sws_) this Fall!🎉 I’ll be recruiting PhD students in the upcoming cycle, as well as research interns throughout the year: lasharavichander.github.io/contact.html
Big congrats to Alex McKenzie, Pedro Ferreira, and their collaborators on receiving Outstanding Paper Awards!👏👏 and thanks for the fantastic oral presentations! Check out the papers here 👇
Starting now: our panel on actionable interpretability! @nsaphra @saprmarks @kylelostat @FazlBarez
ICYMI 🙏🏻
maybe I will live tweet the actionable interp workshop panel
Huge thanks to Sarah Schwettmann for a fascinating keynote on "AI Investigators for Understanding AI Systems" 🤖 @cogconfluence @TransluceAI
Grab a ☕️ and join us for a keynote by @RICEric22: Explanations for Experts via Guarantees and Domain Knowledge: From Attributions to Reasoning
➡️ Join us for the keynote by @byron_c_wallace: “What (if anything) can interpretability do for healthcare?”
The second poster session is starting now!🙌🏻
The first poster session is happening now!
The one and only @_beenkim on Agentic Interpretability and Neologism: What LLMs Can Offer Us!
We’ve started!👏 Looking forward to an exciting day!💫🔍⚙️
🚨The Actionable Interpretability Workshop is happening tomorrow at ICML! Join us for an exciting lineup of speakers, nearly 70 posters, and a great panel discussion 🙌 Don’t miss it! 🔍⚙️ @icmlconf @ActInterp
Love talks that start with “Back in 1986…” @amuuueller
Hope everyone’s getting the most out of #icml25. We’re excited and ready for the Actionable Interpretability (@ActInterp) workshop this Saturday! Check out the schedule and join us to discuss how we can move interpretability toward more practical impact.
We're presenting the Mechanistic Interpretability Benchmark (MIB) now! Come and chat - East 1205. Project led by @amuuueller @AtticusGeiger @sarahwiegreffe
If you're at #ICML2025, chat with me, @sarahwiegreffe, Atticus, and others at our poster 11am - 1:30pm at East #1205! We're establishing a 𝗠echanistic 𝗜nterpretability 𝗕enchmark. We're planning to keep this a living benchmark; come by and share your ideas/hot takes!
I'm excited to discuss downstream applications of interpretability at @ActInterp! For a preview of my thoughts on the topic, see my blog post on how I think about picking applications to target x.com/saprmarks/stat…
🚨Meet our panelists at the Actionable Interpretability Workshop @ActInterp at @icmlconf! Join us July 19 at 4pm for a panel on making interpretability research actionable, its challenges, and how the community can drive greater impact. @nsaphra @saprmarks @kylelostat @FazlBarez