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          <h1>Michael Li</h1>
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        I'm an incoming PhD student in CS at Northeastern University advised by <a href="https://baulab.info/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">David Bau</a> and <a href="https://www.byronwallace.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Byron Wallace</a>. I previously studied statistics and machine learning at CMU.
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        I'm interested in developing our scientific understanding of neural networks, mostly by studying the underlying mechanisms and representations they learn. More broadly, I'm excited by foundational questions about phenomena in deep learning, e.g. generalization, emergent capabilities, scaling laws, and so on.
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          <span class="news-date">Apr 2026</span>
          <p class="news-body">Joining Northeastern University as a CS PhD student in Fall 2026!</p>
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          <span class="news-date">Apr 2026</span>
          <p class="news-body"><em>How Much Do Circuits Tell Us? Measuring the Consistency and Specificity of Language Model Circuits</em> won a best paper award (preliminary track) at the LTI Student Research Symposium.</p>
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          <span class="news-date">Apr 2026</span>
          <p class="news-body"><em>Model Internal Sleuthing</em> was accepted to ACL 2026 (Main).</p>
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          <span class="news-date">Oct 2025</span>
          <p class="news-body">Presented <em>BERTology in the Modern World</em> at the Interplay workshop at COLM 2025.</p>
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        <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08348" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">How Much Do Circuits Tell Us? Measuring the Consistency and Specificity of Language Model Circuits</a><br />
        Michael Li, Nishant Subramani.<br />
        <em>Under review</em>, 2026.
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        <a href="https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.720/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Model Internal Sleuthing: Finding Lexical Identity and Inflectional Features in Modern Language Models</a><br />
        Michael Li, Nishant Subramani.<br />
        <em>ACL</em>, 2026.
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        <a href="https://openreview.net/pdf?id=FqahMD2wY8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">BERTology in the Modern World</a><br />
        Michael Li, Nishant Subramani.<br />
        <em>Workshop on the Interplay of Model Behavior and Model Internals, COLM</em>, 2025.
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        <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10208648/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Predicting the Daily Counts of COVID-19 Infection Using Temporal Convolutional Networks</a><br />
        Michael Li, Fatemeh Esfahani, Li Xing, Xuekui Zhang.<br />
        <em>Journal of Global Health</em>, 2023.
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        Software Engineering Intern, <a href="https://research.google/teams/global-networking/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Google</a>.<br />
        Summer 2025.<br />
        <em>Worked on self-supervised graph neural networks for anomaly detection.</em>
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        Machine Learning Intern, <a href="https://www.epirusinc.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Epirus</a>.<br />
        Summer 2024.<br />
        <em>Developed a real-time drone swarm simulator and trained RL agents with PPO to defend against them.</em>
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        Software Engineering Intern, <a href="https://www.beaverhealth.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Beaver Health</a>.<br />
        Summer 2023.<br />
        <em>Developed a generative AI dialogue framework using GPT-4 and TypeScript to digitize evidence-based health interventions for Alzheimer's patients.</em>
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