Nolan Pozzobon

Where language, meaning, and models meet.

I’m a computer science and linguistics graduate of the University of Chicago and an MSAII student at Carnegie Mellon’s Language Technologies Institute. My work spans LLM interpretability, agentic systems, NLP, and search and recommendation.


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Nolan

I am Nolan Pozzobon

I’m a computer science and linguistics graduate of the University of Chicago and an MSAII student at Carnegie Mellon’s Language Technologies Institute. My work spans LLM interpretability, agentic systems, NLP, and search and recommendation. I’m most interested in where language, meaning, and models meet. I also think a lot about how we can build long-term goals into AI and recommendation systems.

On a personal level, I enjoy learning languages, reading, playing music, wrestling, and cooking. Check out my Goodreads or give my band (from years ago) a listen!

→ open to research & AI/ML engineering internships, summer 2027


Projects

Most of my projects work with LLMs in interpretability and LLM applications. Most recently I was an AI Fellow at Opteryx. Before that I was a research assistant with Dr. Zhewei Sun at the Speech and Language group at TTIC.

No. 01Industry

Opteryx

AI Fellow

Shipped a humanization feature into a production LLM pipeline generating regulated pharmaceutical stability reports, lifting reviewer acceptance by 40%.

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As an AI Fellow at Opteryx, I shipped a humanization feature into a production LLM pipeline that generates regulated pharmaceutical stability reports for paying enterprise customers.

I built a feature extraction system across five heterogeneous document corpora to model the stylistic and structural patterns of human-authored reports, which lifted reviewer acceptance by 40%. I also designed an evaluation pipeline that scores generated reports on factual correctness, logical consistency, register, and how well they reflect customer goals. This replaced a slow manual review process.

No. 02Interpretability

Isolated Knowledge Updates in LLMs

Course project, University of Chicago

Quantified the limits of localized model editing with counterfactual arithmetic edits on Qwen2.5-1.5B — every method that injects a false belief collapses neighbor accuracy from 90% to under 20%.

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Quantified the limits of localized model editing using counterfactual arithmetic edits on Qwen2.5-1.5B. A sweep of 13 standard editing configurations showed that every method which successfully injects a false belief collapses neighbor arithmetic accuracy from 90% to under 20%.

We compared three preservation mechanisms (KL regularization over a 50-item multi-domain locality set, explicit neighbor replay, and a frozen-backbone correction head) across arithmetic, geography, and CounterFact edits. An inference-time “alpha sweep” over the LoRA task vector gives continuous post-hoc control of the edit-preservation tradeoff.

*Note: the associated repository is currently private.

No. 03Agents

Prepost AI / Epistemic Hygienist

Multi-agent system

A multi-agent architecture integrating NLI nodes and RAG retrieval to mitigate “bullshit” assertions and promote nuanced social media speech.

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Engineered a multi-agent system using an AI architecture that integrates NLI nodes and RAG retrieval to mitigate “bullshit” assertions and promote nuanced social media speech.

The system gathers external context from sources like Wikipedia and BBC to perform structured reasoning. I validated performance across diverse agentic designs using models like Gemma 3, Llama 3.1, and GPT-OSS.

No. 04Research

Multilingual Slang

with Dr. Zhewei Sun, TTIC

Developed NLP techniques to better process and model informal language across languages, collecting novel datasets and extending LLM architectures to embed slang terms.

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This research developed NLP techniques to better process and model informal language across languages.

We collected novel datasets for fine-tuning models using BeautifulSoup to more accurately model slang cross-linguistically. We also expanded and modified LLM architectures with PyTorch on distributed GPUs to build on previous research on embedding slang terms.

Research with Dr. Zhewei Sun at the Speech and Language group at TTIC.

No. 05Software

Nabu

Personal AI language tutor

An AI-native desktop app for real-time conversations with a personalized tutor that expands vocabulary using spaced repetition.

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Developed an AI native desktop application for real-time conversations with a personalized AI system to expand vocabulary using spaced repetition.

Crafted the workflows, prompts, and API endpoints, implementing a host of AI tools and APIs such as LangGraph, Whisper, and ElevenLabs.

Let’s talk

drop a line, anytime

npozzobo [at] andrew [dot] cmu [dot] edu