Emma Ryla B.

ML engineer · Research scientist · Independent contractor

I build systems at the boundary of symbolic reasoning and neural representations — where making things work sometimes has me thinking about the nature of understanding. Right now that's pulling me toward interpretability and the deeper question of what structures models are actually learning. Philosophy and linguistics are passions that have become pretty useful.

Currently

ML research scientist at Two Six Technologies working on knowledge extraction and representation pipelines.

Exploring interesting applications of cool tech through independent engineering contracts.

Looking for research homes in interpretability and the foundations of how models represent and reason.

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The Weight of Small Decisions Mar 2024 · creative A Grammar of Machine Understanding Jan 2024 · essay Notes on Inductive Logic Programming Dec 2023 · notes FSTs as Symbolic Scaffolding for Neural Pipelines Oct 2023 · technical