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Researcher · Engineer

Nelson Elhage

NE

Current role not listed

Elhage helped establish mechanistic interpretability, the effort to understand the internal computations of language models, through the Transformer Circuits framework. He is also a systems engineer known for Sorbet, Ksplice and practical open-source developer tools.

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Member of Technical Staff,
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Last editorial review: August 9, 2026