Michael Byun Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Arlington, VA

Palo Alto, California, United States

AI interpretability research supervised by Rylan Schaeffer and Sanmi Koyejo in the Stanford Trustworthy AI Reserach (STAIR) lab. Focused on concept-based interpretability methods and their robustness to adversarial prompting.

San Francisco, California, United States

Developed and ran experiments for the AI interpretability project which resulted in the paper Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01405)

Researched the history of warning signs for downside risks of emerging technologies, with a focus on how certain case studies might be informative about current emerging technologies.

Helped develop an interactive public-facing webmap displaying traffic collision data in Monterey County, as part of a project with the Stanford Cartographic Society (now Stanford DAMS). My role was developing the webmap itself, mostly using the Leaflet library for interactive mapping. The data can be filtered by jurisdiction, collision severity, and.

Photographed performances, exhibit openings, workshops, staff headshots, and other arts-related events for marketing and documentation purposes.

Helped develop curriculum and ran a series of workshops to educate middle schoolers about household energy consumption for the Solutions Science Lab. The curriculum, which was informed by design thinking techniques and centered around data/information visualization, attempted to encourage behavior change.

Stanford, CA

Took photos of arts events, student groups, sporting events, and campus buildings for the newspaper and yearbook, including multiple front-page photos.