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Contact Information

Name Sabrina Sadiekh
Email sadsobr7@gmail.com
Website https://sadsabrina.github.io/sabrina-sadiekh/

Experience

  • 2026 - present

    Remote

    R&D Research Lead
    HiveTrace
    • Architected proposal-driven lab structure spanning three tracks — XAI in Security, AI Security, and AI Safety.
    • Supervise ~12 student research projects from problem formulation through publication.
    • Co-authored 2 papers accepted to AINL 2026; 3 papers under ARR double-blind review.
  • 2022 - present

    Remote

    Independent Researcher
    AikyamLab (with Chirag Agarwal, UVA)
    • Research on mechanistic interpretability and AI safety in collaboration with an international group.
    • Co-authored papers accepted at AAAI 2026 and ACL 2026.
  • 2024 - present

    Lecturer & Program Creator
    HSE University
    • Courses: Advanced ML Topics, Mathematics, Explainable AI.
    • Designed and delivered lectures and seminars for M.Sc. students.
  • 2025 - 2025

    Hybrid

    AI Researcher
    White Circle
    • Analyzed and benchmarked proprietary guardrail models, evaluating robustness and bias dimensions.
  • 2023 - 2024

    Remote

    Course Developer & Teaching Assistant
    AI Education (EdTech)
    • Authored materials in Machine Learning and Audio Deep Learning.

Education

  • 2023 - present

    M.Sc.
    Higher School of Economics (HSE University)
    Artificial Intelligence
    • Research focus on mechanistic interpretability and AI safety.
  • 2019 - 2023

    Petrozavodsk, Russia

    B.Sc.
    Petrozavodsk State University
    Mathematics
    • Thesis: Analysis of Explainable AI Approaches
    • Developed taxonomy of XAI methods across data modalities.
    • Formalized mathematical frameworks for explanation of deep models.

Publications

Skills

Research (Expert): Explainable AI, Mechanistic Interpretability, Sparse Autoencoders, Linear Representation Hypothesis, AI Safety
Machine Learning (Expert): PyTorch, Transformers, Probing, Representation Analysis
Programming (Expert): Python, Julia

Languages

Russian : Native
English : Professional working proficiency

Interests

Research: Representation geometry, Platonic representation hypothesis, LLM internals, AI robustness
Education: Open-source XAI course (600+ students), Telegram blog (1300+ subscribers)