Naomi Saphra

Assistant Professor, Computing and Data Science, Boston University, Boston University
Fellow, Harvard University
Joined
October 2018

Names

Naomi Saphra (Preferred)

Emails

****@ed.ac.uk (Confirmed)
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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
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****@nyu.edu (Confirmed)
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****@nsaphra.net (Confirmed)
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****@mosaicml.com
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****@fas.harvard.edu (Confirmed)
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****@bu.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor
Computing and Data Science, Boston University, Boston University (bu.edu)
2026 – Present
Fellow
Harvard University (harvard.edu)
2023 – 2026
Researcher
Mosaic ML (mosaicml.com)
2022 – 2023
Postdoc
New York University (nyu.edu)
2021 – 2023
PhD student
University of Edinburgh (ed.ac.uk)
2015 – 2021
Intern
Google (google.com)
2019 – 2020
MS student
Johns Hopkins University (jhu.edu)
2013 – 2015
Undergrad student
Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)
2009 – 2013

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Social
Annabelle Carrell
Present
Postdoc Advisor
Kyunghyun Cho
2021 – 2023
PhD Advisor
Adam Lopez
2013 – 2021
Coauthor
Ryan Cotterell
2020 – 2020
Coworker
Ian Tenney
2019 – 2020
Coworker
Thibault Sellam
2019 – 2020
Coworker
Dipanjan Das
2019 – 2020
Coworker
Jasmijn Bastings
2019 – 2020

Expertise

animal communication
2023 – Present
mode connectivity
2022 – Present
loss landscapes
2022 – Present
compositionality
2019 – Present
learning dynamics
2017 – Present
training dynamics
2017 – Present
interpretability
2016 – Present
language models
2014 – Present
natural language processing
2010 – Present

Publications

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Co-Authors

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