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Timothy H. Kostolansky

hi! im tim

i build and study ML systems

these days im thinking about how models work internally and how to make their behavior more transparent and reliable

what i've been up to:

2025
investigating entity representations in transformer LMs · CHAI
2023–24
MEng CS · MIT
2019–23
BS Physics & BS CS · MIT
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Selected Publications

CoT Red-Handed: Stress Testing Chain-of-Thought Monitoring

Benjamin Arnav*, Pablo Bernabeu-Pérez*, Nathan Helm-Burger*, Timothy H. Kostolansky*, Hannes Whittingham*, Mary Phuong

arXiv, poster, In Proc. NeurIPS 2025, June 2025

Inverse Constitutional AI

Timothy H. Kostolansky

pdf, Master's Thesis, May 2024