about me

Hello there! 👋 I’m Adam, a Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft’s IDEAS Research team, working at the intersection of NLP, (mechanistic) interpretability, cognitive science, OOD generalization, and causal machine learning to study how AI models “think”. I graduated in May 2026 from UIUC with my PhD in CS.

My research vision is to help build the foundations of a cognitive science of AI, studying how foundation models like LLMs learn, represent, and process information. My work focuses on how we can interpret and control the features learned and leveraged by these models, including how they are used in performing various tasks, and how to apply such knowledge/methods to predict and improve models’ generalization to novel contexts.