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Arshavir Blackwell

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Principal at Arvoinen Consulting
📍 Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, United States

Arshavir Blackwell is a Principal at Arvoinen Consulting and a seasoned AI and Machine Learning Scientist with over two decades of experience. Specializing in automated NLP and LLMs, he excels at designing adaptive, language-driven applications. He holds a PhD from UC San Diego and an AB from Brown University.

He hosts the "Inside the Black Box: Cracking AI & Deep Learning" podcast and Substack newsletter, where he explores the inner workings of AI. His work aims to make the complex logic of LLMs more understandable, analyzing everything from AI hallucinations to how models process meaning.

He holds multiple patents for systems that use social network data and user affinities to automatically generate and target advertising campaigns.

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Experience
20 Years
Current Role
Principal
Location
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, United States
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LLM Interpretability
Hosts a podcast and Substack called "Inside the Black Box" dedicated to making the internal logic and neural circuits of large language models understandable.
AI Knowledge vs. Noise
Explores how LLMs can internally find correct answers only to suppress them later, a topic he discusses frequently on his podcast and in social posts.
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Career

Work history

10-2020
Principal
Arvoinen Consulting
12-2010 - 10-2020
Chief Scientist (Data Science and Deep Learning)
CitizenNet
1-2008
Senior Research Scientist
Fox Interactive Media
2-2007 - 12-2007
Principal Computer Scientist, MetaLINCS
Seagate Technology
6-2005 - 2-2007
Senior Scientist/Director of Research, H5 Technologies
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Education
1989 - 1995
PhD
UC San Diego
1983 - 1987
AB
Brown University
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