Scholar
Michael Hahn
Google Scholar ID: 9y9ALCQAAAAJ
Saarland University
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,373
H-index
17
i10-index
23
Publications
20
Co-authors
19
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Awarded the prestigious Emmy Noether grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) in 2025, funding the lab for up to six years
- Best Paper Award at ACL 2024 for 'Why are Sensitive Functions Hard for Transformers?'
- Second Prize at ICML 2024 Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop for 'InversionView for reading out information from neural activations'
- Recognized as Outstanding Area Chair at EMNLP 2024
- Multiple papers accepted at top-tier venues including NeurIPS 2025/2024, ICML 2025, ICLR 2025, ACL 2024, COLM 2025
- Publications in high-impact journals such as Nature Neuroscience (2024), PNAS (2020, 2022a, 2022b), and TACL (2019, 2020)
- Invited keynote speaker at NeurIPS 2025 Workshop and plenary talk at Information Theory and Applications 2025
Background
- Tenure-Track Professor (W2) at Saarland University
- Directs the Language, Computation, and Cognition Lab (LaCoCo)
- Affiliated with the Departments of Language Science and Technology and Computer Science
- ELLIS Member and ELIZA Fellow
- Research interests: Information processing in LLMs and the brain, abilities and learning biases of transformer models, mechanistic interpretability of language models, computational cognition and neuroscience
