Brian Kipkirui

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I am a CMU Portugal dual-degree ECE PhD student at Carnegie Mellon and FEUP, holding an M.S. in Engineering AI from CMU-Africa. My research focuses on the mechanistic interpretability of vision-language models, visual grounding, and medical AI explainability.

Research topics:Vision-Language Models (VLMs); Visual Grounding; AI Safety; Computer Vision; Multimodal Deep Learning, Mechanistic Interpretability.
Enrollment year: 2026
CMU Supervisor: Carlee Joe-Wong