Postdoctoral Scholar, she/her
lena.strobl[æt]yale.edu

I'm a post-doc at Yale Linguistics, affiliated with the Computational Linguistics at Yale (CLAY) Lab and Cognitive Science at Yale (since Jan 1, 2026). I study transformer computation and representations, and I am intersted in cognition, psychology, and language use.

I hosted and organized the FLaNN seminars, an online seminar series on Formal Languages and Neural Networks. We are currently organizing its first offical in-person workshop.

Lena Strobl

Recent Positions

  • Postdoctoral Scholar, Yale University
    Jan 2026–present
    Advisor: Bob Frank
  • Assistant in Research, Yale University
    Fall 2024
    Advisors: Bob Frank, Dana Angluin
  • Assistant in Research, MIT
    Spring 2024
    Advisor: Jon Rawski
  • Research Intern, Aristo Team at AI2
    Summer/Fall 2023
    Advisor: Ashish Sabharwal

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science
    2022–2025
    Umeå University
  • M.Sc. in Computer Science (Speech and Language Processing)
    2021
    University of Sheffield
  • B.Sc. in Computer Science
    2019
    Freie Universität Berlin

Research Interests

  • Structure and computation in language models
  • Interpretability and representation learning
  • Language, interaction, and cognition