Koyena Pal

PhD Student

Koyena Pal
  • Interpretable AI 
  • Natural language processing 
  • AI 
  • Human-computer interaction
  • MS in Computer Science, Brown University 
  • BS in Computer Science, Brown University

Koyena Pal is a PhD student at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. She earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from Brown University. Pal is affiliated with the Interpretable Neural Networks Lab (BauLab), Northeastern’s PhD Women’s Group, and Brown University’s Women’s Launch Pad. 

Her research area is interpretable AI, and her faculty advisor is Dr. David Bau. Pal has received the Brown CS Scholarship for Richard Tapia Conference and the Top 3 Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE 18th HASE Conference. 

Outside of research, she enjoys listening to music in different languages.  

  • NNsight and NDIF: Democratizing Access to Open-Weight Foundation Model Internals

    Citation: Jaden Fried Fiotto-Kaufman, Alexander Russell Loftus, Eric Todd, Jannik Brinkmann, Koyena Pal, Dmitrii Troitskii, Michael Ripa, Adam Belfki, Can Rager, Caden Juang, Aaron Mueller, Samuel Marks, Arnab Sen Sharma, Francesca Lucchetti, Nikhil Prakash, Carla E. Brodley, Arjun Guha, Jonathan Bell , Byron C. Wallace, David Bau. (2025). NNsight and NDIF: Democratizing Access to Open-Weight Foundation Model Internals ICLR. https://openreview.net/forum?id=MxbEiFRf39