Max Torop

I am a sixth year PhD candidate in Prof. Jennifer Dy’s Machine Learning Lab at Northeastern University. I work on representation engineering for LLMs and interpretable ML. I also collaborate with scientists at MSKCC on ML for dermatology. I was a research intern at Apple during Summer 2024, working on methods for selecting SFT/RLHF training data for LLMs.
Before coming to Northeastern I completed a Masters in CS at WUSTL, where I developed deep learning methods for MRI data as a member of Prof. Ulugbek Kamilov’s Computational Imaging Group. I recieved a BS in Data Science from the University of Rochester in 2018.
Outside of research I love to watch anime and read. Some favorites are One Piece, Fullmetal Alchemist, Dororo, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Stormlight Archive, Never Let Me Go, East of Eden and Hyperion.
News
Sep 18, 2025 | Our paper DISCO: Disentangled Communication Steering for Large Language Models has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025! |
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Aug 18, 2025 | I will be attending the National Cancer Institute (NCI) sponsored ITCR meeting in Rockville, MD. |
Jan 21, 2025 | Our work Axiomatic Explainer Globalness via Optimal Transport has been accepted to AISTATS 2025. |
Oct 24, 2024 | Gave a talk on our work SmoothHess to Prof. Doshi-Velez’s DtAK lab at Harvard. |
Apr 22, 2024 | I will be joining Apple as an ML Research Intern this Summer! |
Selected Publications
2025
- DISCO: Disentangled Communication Steering for Large Language ModelsIn The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025