Research

Opening the black box—without losing sight of the human.

I study how predictive information is represented inside neural systems, how it can be translated into faithful evidence, and how people understand and act on that evidence.

Muhammad Umair Danish presenting mechanistic-interpretability resultsResearch presentation · Neural representation analysis
Research programme

A connected agenda for accountable intelligence.

Each theme addresses a different layer of the same problem: how to build powerful models whose evidence, limitations, and human effects can be examined.

Theme 01

Mechanistic interpretability

Methods that expose where concepts and predictive signals appear across neural representations, with emphasis on non-interventional analysis and human-readable evidence.

  • Representation probing and concept localization
  • Layer-wise information tracing
  • Faithfulness without model perturbation
Theme 02

Human-centered explainable AI

Empirical evaluation of explanation modalities, cognitive efficiency, trust calibration, understanding, and decision support.

  • Textual, graphical, and interactive explanations
  • User studies and validated constructs
  • Explanation design for high-stakes contexts
Theme 03

Reliable temporal learning

Adaptive, physics-guided, and structured models for heterogeneous energy consumers and other real-world time series.

  • Hypernetworks and learnable kernels
  • Physics-guided memory
  • Missing-data reconstruction and uncertainty
Theme 04

Human-aligned AI evaluation

Metrics and evaluation frameworks that connect computational signals with human perception, consistency, and practical quality.

  • Generative-image quality assessment
  • Perceptual and global–local evidence
  • Order-theoretic reliability measures
Interactive research map

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Mechanistic interpretability

Trace information rather than merely producing a post-hoc picture.

Linear Lens and related work investigate how predictive information emerges across a network while keeping the deployed model unchanged.

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Research rigor

How I move from an idea to evidence.

01

Question first

Define the scientific and human question before choosing the architecture or explanation method.

02

Strong baselines

Compare against transparent baselines, contemporary methods, and meaningful ablations.

03

Multiple forms of evidence

Combine predictive metrics with robustness tests, statistical analysis, visual diagnostics, and user evidence when appropriate.

04

Reproducible outputs

Package code, metadata, figures, and documented assumptions so results can be inspected and extended.

Current directions

Questions I am pursuing now.

01

How can internal neural representations become useful evidence for humans?

Extending concept-level and layer-wise analysis into explanations that support understanding without sacrificing faithfulness.

02

Which explanation modalities improve decisions—and for whom?

Studying differences across textual, graphical, and interactive explanations using trust, understanding, cognitive load, and decision outcomes.

03

How can temporal models adapt across diverse environments?

Combining learnable structure, physical guidance, and robust missing-data methods for transferable forecasting.