-<span class="change-person" i-content="I am" they-content="Naomi Saphra is" she-content="Naomi Saphra is">I am</span> a research fellow at the [Kempner Institute at Harvard University](https://www.harvard.edu/kempner-institute/). <span class="change-person" i-content="I am" they-content="They are" she-content="She is">I am</span> interested in NLP training dynamics: how models learn to encode linguistic patterns or other structure and how we can encode useful inductive biases into the training process. Recently, <span class="change-person" i-content="I have" they-content="they have" she-content="she has">I have</span> begun collaborating with natural and social scientists to use interpretability to understand the world around us. <span class="change-person" i-content="I have" they-content="They have" she-content="She has">I have</span> become particularly interested in fish. Previously, <span class="change-person" i-content="I" they-content="they" she-content="she">I</span> earned a PhD from the University of Edinburgh on [Training Dynamics of Neural Language Models](uploads/thesis.pdf); worked at NYU, Google and Facebook; and attended Johns Hopkins and Carnegie Mellon University. Outside of research, <span class="change-person" i-content="I play" they-content="they play" she-content="she plays">I play</span> roller derby under the name [Gaussian Retribution](https://auldreekierollerderby.com/2019/08/10/the-one-gift-i-received-along-with-my-disability/), <span class="change-person" i-content="do" they-content="perform" she-content="performs">perform</span> [standup comedy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzNDdS-lcqM), and <span class="change-person" i-content="shepherd" they-content="shepherd" she-content="shepherds">shepherd</span> disabled programmers into the world of [code dictation](post/hands/).
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