Foad Namjoo
I'm a Computer Science PhD student at the Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah, advised by Professor Jeff Phillips in the UtahDB Lab. My research makes large language models more interpretable and controllable — using activation steering, grounded in high-dimensional geometry and statistics, to direct model behavior such as truthfulness, tone, and verbosity. I also build reliable systems for wearable sensor data.
News
- Release Released dKS — a fast, header-only C++ library with Python bindings (
import dks) for the multi-dimensional Kolmogorov–Smirnov distance, with both exact and near-linear-time algorithms. Paper · Code. Jun 15, 2026 - Visit Visited Martian, an AI startup building LLM model routers, for a research day of talks on interpretability, steering, and evaluation. Jan 16, 2026
- Presentation Presented the MotionPI paper at the SmartSP 2025 conference. Dec 1, 2025
- Datasets Released three contrast datasets on Hugging Face. Nov 12, 2025
- Poster Presented dKS research at the Utah AI Summit 2025. Jun 18, 2025