Lena Strobl

Ph.D. Student, she/her
lenas[æt]cs.umu.se

I'm a Ph.D. student affiliated with the Foundations of Language Processing research group at Umeå University, focusing on neural network interpretability through formal language theory.

I hosted and organized the FLaNN seminars, an online seminar series on Formal Languages and Neural Networks.

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Recent Positions

• Assistant in Research, Yale University
  Autumn 2024
  Advisors: Bob Frank, Dana Angluin
• Assistant in Research, MIT
  Spring 2024
  Advisor: Jon Rawski
• Research Intern, Aristo Team at AI2
  August-December 2023
  Advisor: Ashish Sabharwal

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science
  2022–Present
  Umeå University
• M.Sc. in Computer Science with Speech and Language Processing
  2021
  University of Sheffield
• B.Sc. in Computer Science
  2019
  Freie Universität Berlin

Research Interests

• Formal Language Theory
• Neural Networks
• Computational Linguistics