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SaraMolas/README.md

Hi there! I'm Sara 🙌

I study internal representations in both biological and artificial neural systems: how they are formed, how they can be interpreted, and how they shape behavior.

I’m a Research Scientist with a background in Computational Neuroscience, currently focusing on Mechanistic Interpretability. My work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, machine learning, and complex systems: basically taking messy, complex data (rodent brain recordings or neural network activations) and turning it into insights that actually make sense.

🧠 Research Highlights

  • PhD research: Led full-cycle experiments and computational analyses to understand spatial representation in the mouse hippocampus (“the brain’s GPS”).
  • Mechanistic interpretability: Completed a research project mentored by Stefan Heimersheim (at FARAI) on computation in superposition, resulting in a NeurIPS workshop paper and LessWrong article.
  • Cross-domain representations: collaborated on a recent NeurIPS workshop paper applying Sparse Autoencoders to biological neurons, showing how interpretability tools can bridge AI and Neuroscience.

💻 Tech & Tools

  • Python: PyTorch, TransformerLens, NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Seaborn
  • Neural networks, FastICA, Bayesian Inference, SVM, Gradient Boosted Trees, random forests
  • LLM experimentation, mechanistic interpretability

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  1. place-cell-simulations place-cell-simulations Public

    Repo to create synthetic neural data and noise

    Jupyter Notebook 2

  2. latent-ensembles-detector latent-ensembles-detector Public

    Repo to identify neural ensembles: neurons that encode information together

    Python 2

  3. induction-heads-exploration induction-heads-exploration Public

    Mechanistic interpretability exploration of induction circuits in a Transformer

    Jupyter Notebook