David Atkinson

I am a first-year PhD student at Northeastern University, advised by David Bau and Byron Wallace and supported by the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. My research interests revolve around interpreting and controlling large language models.

Before starting the PhD, I worked as a software engineer at an agricultural startup, and then as a researcher at Epoch, investigating when and how we should expect advanced AI capabilities to arrive. I majored in Math and Computer Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where I did NLP research advised by Chenhao Tan.