Explainable AI @xai-research.bsky.social Explainable/Interpretable AI researchers and enthusiasts - DM to join the XAI Slack! Blue Sky and Slack maintained by Nick Kroeger
Hubert Baniecki @hbaniecki.com PhD student, University of Warsaw
hbaniecki.com
Matthias Aßenmacher @assenmacher.bsky.social Postdoc | #NLProc researcher | @slds-lmu.bsky.social | @munichcenterml.bsky.social | @berd-nfdi.bsky.social
Andreas Bender @adibender.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ LMU Munich
Lead Machine Learning Consulting Unit @ Munich Center for Machine Learning
Ludwig Bothmann @ludwig-bothmann.bsky.social PostDoc @ LMU Munich
Group Leader CausalFairML
Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML)
Chair of Statistical Learning and Data Science at the LMU Munich @slds-lmu.bsky.social https://www.slds.stat.uni-muenchen.de
Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers and family. ML/NLP professor.
nsaphra.net
Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Groningen / GroNLP (@gronlp.bsky.social) interested in the interpretability and analysis of language models. Ex- BIFOLD, TU Berlin, DFKI. https://nfelnlp.github.io/
Zining Zhu @zhuzining.bsky.social Asst Prof @ Stevens. Working on NLP, Explainable, Safe and Trustworthy AI. https://ziningzhu.github.io
Chris Olah @colah.bsky.social Reverse engineering neural networks at Anthropic. Previously Distill, OpenAI, Google Brain.Personal account.
Michael Hanna @michaelwhanna.bsky.social PhD Student at the ILLC / UvA doing work at the intersection of (mechanistic) interpretability and cognitive science. Current Anthropic Fellow.
hannamw.github.io
Qianli Wang @ ACL 2025🇦🇹 @qiaw99.bsky.social Second-year PhD student at XplaiNLP group @TU Berlin: interpretability & explainability
Website: https://qiaw99.github.io
Daniel Johnson @ddjohnson.bsky.social PhD student at Vector Institute / University of Toronto. Building tools to study neural nets and find out what they know. He/him.
www.danieldjohnson.com
Aaron Mueller @amuuueller.bsky.social Postdoc at Northeastern and incoming Asst. Prof. at Boston U. Working on NLP, interpretability, causality. Previously: JHU, Meta, AWS
Alex Makelov @amakelov.bsky.social Mechanistic interpretability
Creator of https://github.com/amakelov/mandala
prev. Harvard/MIT
machine learning, theoretical computer science, competition math.
Chris Wendler @wendlerc.bsky.social Postdoc at the interpretable deep learning lab at Northeastern University, deep learning, LLMs, mechanistic interpretability
Lorenz Linhardt @lorenzlinhardt.bsky.social PhD Student at the TU Berlin ML group + BIFOLD | BUA Fellow
Model robustness/correction 🤖🔧
Understanding representation spaces 🌌✨
Ribana Roscher @ribana.bsky.social Professor of Machine Learning in Agriculture at University of Bonn
Working on Explainable ML🔍, Data-centric ML🐿️, Sustainable Agriculture🌾, Earth Observation Data Analysis🌍, and more...
Daniel Scalena @danielsc4.it Intern of TS @Cohere | PhDing @unimib 🇮🇹 & @GroNlp 🇳🇱, interpretability et similia
danielsc4.it
Daniel Arp @darpsky.bsky.social Assistant Professor at TU Wien
Machine Learning & Security
Farnoush Rezaei-Jafari @farnoushrj.bsky.social ML Ph.D. Candidate @tuberlin.bsky.social and @bifold.berlin | Explainable AI, Interpretability, Efficient Machine Learning
farnoushrj.github.io
Stefan Haufe @sparsity.bsky.social Professor of Machine Learning at TUBerlin, group leader at PTB. Lab account: @qailabs.bsky.social.
@sparsity@mastodon.social
tu.berlin/uniml/about/head-of-group
Johanna Vielhaben @johannavielhaben.bsky.social PhD candidate in the XAI group at Fraunhofer HHI
Sophia Sanborn @naturecomputes.bsky.social Searching for principles of neural representation | Neuro + AI @ enigmaproject.ai | Stanford | sophiasanborn.com
Ruizhe Li @ruizheli.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University of Aberdeen | Postdoc at UCL | PhD at University of Sheffield | mechanistic interpretability & multimodal LLMs | https://www.ruizhe.space
@dheerajr.bsky.social @dheerajr.bsky.social 
Stella Biderman @stellaathena.bsky.social I make sure that OpenAI et al. aren't the only people who are able to study large scale AI systems.
Mimansa Jaiswal @mimansaj.bsky.social Robustness, Data & Annotations, Evaluation & Interpretability in LLMs
http://mimansajaiswal.github.io/
Christina (Chrisy) Bornberg @variint.bsky.social Enjoy not enjoying ideals | Interpretability of modular convnets applied to 👁️ and 🛰️🐝 | she/her 🦒💕
variint.github.io
Miryam de Lhoneux @mdlhx.bsky.social NLP assistant prof at KU Leuven, PI @lagom-nlp.bsky.social. I like syntax more than most people. Also multilingual NLP, interpretability, mountains and beer. (She/her)
Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org INSERM group leader @ Neuromodulation Institute and NeuroSpin (Paris) in computational neuroscience.
How and why are computations enabling cognition distributed across the brain?
Expect neuroscience and ML content.
jbarbosa.org
parisneuro.fr
Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social Full of childlike wonder. Building friendly robots. UT Austin PhD student, MIT ‘20.
Bharath Radhakrishnan @bharathr98.com 
Jenny Kunz @jeku.bsky.social Postdoc at Linköping University🇸🇪. Doing NLP, particularly explainability, language adaptation, modular LLMs. I‘m also into🌋🏕️🚴.
Dino Sejdinovic @sejdino.bsky.social Professor of Statistical Machine Learning at the University of Adelaide.
https://sejdino.github.io/
Mor Geva @megamor2.bsky.social https://mega002.github.io
Lee Sharkey @leesharkey.bsky.social Scruting matrices @ Apollo Research
Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net Linguist in AI & CogSci 🧠👩💻🤖
PhD student @illc-uva.bsky.social
🌐 https://mdhk.net/
🐘 https://scholar.social/@mdhk
🐦 https://twitter.com/mariannedhk
Abhilasha Ravichander @lasha.bsky.social Tenure-track faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Previously postdoc at UW and AI2, working on Natural Language Processing
Recruiting PhD students!
🌐 https://lasharavichander.github.io/
Max Müller-Eberstein @mxij.me Postdoc AI Researcher (NLP) @ ITU Copenhagen
🧭 https://mxij.me
Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch @anneo.bsky.social Comm tech & social media research professor by day, symphony violinist by night, outside as much as possible otherwise. German/American Pacific Northwestern New Englander, #firstgen academic, she/her, 🏳️🌈
https://anne-oeldorf-hirsch.uconn.edu
Alicia Curth @aliciacurth.bsky.social Machine Learner by day, 🦮 Statistician at ❤️
In search of statistical intuition for modern ML & simple explanations for complex things👀
Interested in the mysteries of modern ML, causality & all of stats. Opinions my own.
https://aliciacurth.github.io
Eliana Pastor @elianapastor.bsky.social Assistant Professor at PoliTo 🇮🇹 |
Former Visiting scholar at UCSC 🇺🇸 |
she/her | TrustworthyAI, XAI, Fairness in AI
https://elianap.github.io/
Rachel Lawrence @rachel-law.bsky.social Organic machine turning tea into theorems ☕️
AI @ Microsoft Research ➡️ Goal: Teach models (and humans) to reason better
Let’s connect re: AI for social good, graphs & network dynamics, discrete math, logic 🧩, 🥾,🎨, protecting democracy🗽
www.rlaw.me
Jasmijn Bastings @jasmijn.bastings.me Researcher, writer, photographer.
📸 bastings.art
📃 transponder.blog
📍 Amsterdam
Kayo Yin @kayoyin.bsky.social PhD student at UC Berkeley. NLP for signed languages and LLM interpretability. kayoyin.github.io
🏂🎹🚵♀️🥋
Andreas Madsen @andreasmadsen.bsky.social Ph.D. in NLP Interpretability from Mila. Previously: independent researcher, freelancer in ML, and Node.js core developer.
Marielza @marielza.bsky.social Retired UNESCO Dir for Digital Inclusion, Policies & Transformation. Chair, UN University, eGov Institute.
UNESCO Women in STEM Committee
Some pottery and cyanotyping
Profile picture is of my face and torso
Banner is a picture I took of a light garden
Nora Belrose @norabelrose.bsky.social AI, philosophy, spirituality
Head of interpretability research at EleutherAI, but posts are my own views, not Eleuther’s.
claudia shi @claudiashi.bsky.social machine learning, causal inference, science of llm, ai safety, phd student @bleilab, keen bean
https://www.claudiashi.com/
Katharina Prasse @katharinaprasse.bsky.social PhD in Computer Vision
Supervised and Inspired by Prof. Dr.-Ing Margret Keuper
Member of the Data & Web Science Group @ University of Mannheim.
Julia Grabinski @juliagrabinski.bsky.social Postdoc at Visual Inference Lab, TU Darmstadt
@patrickknab.bsky.social @patrickknab.bsky.social 
Julian Skirzynski @jskirzynski.bsky.social PhD student in Computer Science @UCSD. Studying interpretable AI and RL to improve people's decision-making.
Berk Ustun @berkustun.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UCSD. I work on safety, interpretability, and fairness in machine learning. www.berkustun.com
Hailey Joren @haileyjoren.bsky.social PhD Student @ UC San Diego
Researching reliable, interpretable, and human-aligned ML/AI
Explainable AI Researcher @zootime.bsky.social I work with explainability AI in a german research facility
Johannes Fürnkranz @juffi-jku.bsky.social Researcher Machine Learning & Data Mining, Prof. Computational Data Analytics @jkulinz.bsky.social, Austria.
Julius Adebayo @juliusad.bsky.social ML researcher, building interpretable models at Guide Labs (guidelabs.bsky.social). 
Elena Glassman @elglassman.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Harvard SEAS specializing in human-computer and human-AI interaction. Also interested in visualization, digital humanities, urban design.
Chhavi Yadav @chhaviyadav.bsky.social Machine Learning Researcher | PhD Candidate @ucsd_cse | @trustworthy_ml
chhaviyadav.org
Lesia Semenova 🇺🇦 @lesiasemenova.bsky.social Assistant Professor @RutgersCS • Previously @MSFTResearch, @dukecompsci, @PinterestEng, @samsungresearch • Trustworthy AI • Interpretable ML • https://lesiasemenova.github.io/
Christoph Molnar @christophmolnar.bsky.social Author of Interpretable Machine Learning and other books
Newsletter: https://mindfulmodeler.substack.com/
Website: https://christophmolnar.com/
Chandan Singh @csinva.bsky.social Seeking superhuman explanations.
Senior researcher at Microsoft Research, PhD from UC Berkeley, https://csinva.io/
Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social Professor in Artificial Intelligence, The University of Queensland, Australia
Human-Centred AI, Decision support, Human-agent interaction, Explainable AI
https://uqtmiller.github.io
Umang Bhatt @umangsbhatt.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ University of Cambridge.
Responsible AI. Human-AI Collaboration. Interactive Evaluation.
umangsbhatt.github.io
Stefan Herzog @stefanherzog.bsky.social Senior Researcher @arc-mpib.bsky.social MaxPlanck @mpib-berlin.bsky.social, group leader #BOOSTING decisions: cognitive science, AI/collective intelligence, behavioral public policy, comput. social science, misinfo; stefanherzog.org scienceofboosting.org
Ryan Chan @ryanchankh.bsky.social Machine Learning PhD at UPenn. Interested in the theory and practice of interpretable machine learning. ML Intern@Apple.
Pedro Ribeiro @pedroribeiro.bsky.social Data Scientist @ Mass General, Beth Israel, Broad | Clinical Research | Automated Interpretable Machine Learning, Evolutionary Algorithms | UPenn MSE Bioengineering, Oberlin BA Computer Science
Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com CS Prof at the University of Oregon, studying adversarial machine learning, data poisoning, interpretable AI, probabilistic and relational models, and more. Avid unicyclist and occasional singer-songwriter. He/him
gully @gully.bsky.social interpretable machine learning for atmospheric and astronomical data analysis, near-IR spectra, climate tech, stars & planets; bikes, Austin, diving off bridges into the ocean.
Harmanpreet Kaur @harmankaur.bsky.social Assistant professor at University of Minnesota CS. Human-centered AI, interpretable ML, hybrid intelligence systems.
Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social Assistant Professor at MIT; Human-AI Interaction, Worker-Centric AI
zbucinca.github.io
Krzysztof Gajos @kgajos.bsky.social Professor of computer science at Harvard. I focus on human-AI interaction, #HCI, and accessible computing.
@chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social Associate professor at the University of Chicago. Working on human-centered AI, NLP, CSS. https://chenhaot.com, https://substack.com/@cichicago
Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social CS Professor at Stanford
Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social Sr. Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research, NYC // Machine Learning, Responsible AI, Transparency, Intelligibility, Human-AI Interaction // WiML Co-founder // Former NeurIPS & current FAccT Program Co-chair // Brooklyn, NY // http://jennwv.com
Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social 🎯 Making AI less evil= human-centered + explainable + responsible AI
💼 Harvard Berkman Klein Fellow | CS Prof. @Northeastern | Data & Society
🏢 Prev-Georgia Tech, {Google, IBM, Microsoft} Research
🔬 AI, HCI, Philosophy
☕ F1, memes
🌐 upolehsan.com
Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social Ginni Rometty Prof @NorthwesternCS | Fellow @NU_IPR | AI, people, uncertainty, beliefs, decisions, metascience | Blog @statmodeling
Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social Human-centered AI #HCAI, NLP & ML. Director TRAILS (Trustworthy AI in Law & Society) and AIM (AI Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland). Formerly Microsoft Research NYC. Fun: 🧗🧑🍳🧘⛷️🏕️. he/him.
sorelle @friedler.net CS prof at Haverford, Chair @acm.org U.S. tech policy, @brookings.edu nonres Senior Fellow, former White House OSTP tech policy, co-author AI Bill of Rights, research on AI and society, @facct.bsky.social co-founder
formerly @kdphd 🐦
sorelle.friedler.net
steph milani @stephmilani.bsky.social assistant prof / faculty fellow @ nyu courant, then assistant prof @ jhu cs
human-centered reinforcement learning & ai agents
🐦 twitter.com/steph_milani
🌐 stephmilani.github.io
Xiaoyan Bai @elenal3ai.bsky.social PhD @UChicagoCS / BE in CS @Umich / ✨AI/NLP transparency and interpretability/📷🎨photography painting
Michael Hind @michaelhind.bsky.social IBM Distinguished RSM, working on AI transparency, governance, explainability, and fairness. Proud husband & dad, Soccer lover. Posts are my own.
André Panisson @panisson.bsky.social Principal Researcher @ CENTAI.eu | Leading the Responsible AI Team. Building Responsible AI through Explainable AI, Fairness, and Transparency. Researching Graph Machine Learning, Data Science, and Complex Systems to understand collective human behavior.
Hendrik Strobelt @henstr.bsky.social Senior Research Scientist at IBM Research and Explainability lead at the MIT-IBM AI Lab in Cambridge, MA. Interested in all things (X)AI, NLP, Visualization. Hobbies: Social chair at #NeurIPS, MiniConf, Mementor-- http://hendrik.strobelt.com
Thomas Fel @thomasfel.bsky.social Explainability, Computer Vision, Neuro-AI.🪴 Kempner Fellow @Harvard.
Prev. PhD @Brown, @Google, @GoPro. Crêpe lover.
📍 Boston | 🔗 thomasfel.me
Gabriel Lima @glima.bsky.social PhD Researcher at #MPI_SP | MS and BS at KAIST | AI ethics, HCI, justice, accountability, fairness, explainability | he/him
http://thegcamilo.github.io/
Arkadiy Saakyan @asaakyan.bsky.social PhD student at Columbia University working on human-AI collaboration, AI creativity and explainability. prev. intern @GoogleDeepMind, @AmazonScience
asaakyan.github.io
@hildeweerts.bsky.social @hildeweerts.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology | responsible AI, fairness, etc. | maintainer at fairlearn 👩💻
Adrian Valente @loradrian.bsky.social RE at Instadeep, PhD in computational neuroscience, MSc in CS, interested in ML for life sciences.
Harry Cheon @scheon.com "Seung Hyun" | MS CS & BS Applied Math @UCSD 🌊 | LPCUWC 18' 🇭🇰 | AI Evaluation, Safety, Alignment | 🇰🇷
harry.scheon.com
Martin Wattenberg @wattenberg.bsky.social Human/AI interaction. ML interpretability. Visualization as design, science, art. Professor at Harvard, and part-time at Google DeepMind.
Anna Rogers @annarogers.bsky.social Associate professor at IT University of Copenhagen: NLP, language models, interpretability, AI & society. Co-editor-in-chief of ACL Rolling Review. #NLProc #NLP
Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social Computation & Complexity | AI Interpretability | Meta-theory | Computational Cognitive Science
Max Planck Institute ESI.
Dept. of Computer Science & Mathematics,
Goethe University Frankfurt.
https://fedeadolfi.github.io
On the job market!
Martina G. Vilas @martinagvilas.bsky.social AI Evaluation & Interpretability @NVIDIA
Maria Eckstein @mariaeckstein.bsky.social Research scientist at Google DeepMind.
Intersection of cognitive science and AI. Reinforcement learning, decision making, structure learning, abstraction, cognitive modeling, interpretability.
Alessio Devoto @alessiodevoto.bsky.social PhD in ML/AI | Researching Efficient ML/AI (vision & language) 🍀 & Interpretability | @SapienzaRoma @EdinburghNLP | https://alessiodevoto.github.io/ | ex @NVIDIA
vedang @vedanglad.bsky.social ai interpretability research and running • thinking about how models think • prev @MIT cs + physics