About
Tyrone White
I'm a master's student in AI at the Institute of Science Tokyo. My current research focuses on the mechanistic interpretability of large language models, especially from a linguistics-oriented angle: grammatical generalization, syntactic structure, lexical frequency effects, and how linguistic knowledge is represented internally in neural networks.
Before Tokyo I studied at the University of Zurich, completing a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Computational Linguistics and a minor in Comparative Linguistics. My background sits at the intersection of natural language processing, machine learning, linguistics, and language-oriented AI research.
Education
M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence
Research focus: mechanistic interpretability of large language models, linguistic generalization, syntactic structure, and internal representations.
Bachelor of Arts
Major in Computational Linguistics, minor in Comparative Linguistics.
Thesis: Two Heads or One? Mechanisms Driving Performance in Multi-Agent LLM Reasoning
Languages
English · French · German · Japanese (JLPT N1 — summer 2026)
Plus a bit of Spanish, Mandarin, Korean, Kinyarwanda.
Beyond work
Piano and music: I post some playing on my YouTube channel. Outside of that, language learning, creative coding, and the broader question of how intelligence shows up across humans, animals, biological systems, and machines. Also history.
Currently reading: The Three-Body Problem