--- title: "Lawrence Chan — author profile and papers · Interpretability" description: "Lawrence Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 80 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lawrence-chan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lawrence-chan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Lawrence Chan # Lawrence Chan Lawrence Chan has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2023, most of them on [Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/); often with [Jacob Steinhardt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacob-steinhardt/), [Neel Nanda](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/neel-nanda/), [Soren Mindermann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/soren-mindermann/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5053350932) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6451-2273) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42845194) · [**h-index 80**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5053350932) · [463 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5053350932) · [23,965 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5053350932&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lawrence-chan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 237 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lawrence-chan/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5187](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/52/#star-5187) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Lawrence+Chan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Lawrence+Chan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Lawrence+Chan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Lawrence+Chan) ## Affiliations [🎓**Hong Kong Polytechnic University** Hong Kong · China 2003–2025 · 140 papersEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hong-kong-polytechnic-university/) · [🎓**The Ohio State University** Columbus · United States 2021–2025 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-ohio-state-university/) · [🎓**Baylor College of Medicine** Houston · United States 1974–2017 · 222 papers](https://ror.org/02pttbw34) · [🏥**Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center** Houston · United States 2002–2012 · 15 papers](https://ror.org/0195twz09) · [🏥**Houston Methodist** Houston · United States 1976–2007 · 14 papers](https://ror.org/027zt9171) · [🏥**Texas Medical Center** Houston · United States 1976–2003 · 9 papers](https://ror.org/00dqsbj20) · [🎓**University of California, San Francisco** San Francisco · United States 1997–2024 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-san-francisco/) · [🎓**University of Colorado Denver** Denver · United States 1994–2016 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-colorado-denver/) · [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 2014–2015 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · [🏥**Queen Elizabeth Hospital** Hong Kong · China 2018–2022 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/05ee2qy47) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 59 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/) · [Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lawrence-chan/year/2023/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lawrence-chan/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Progress measures for grokking via mechanistic interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nanda-2023-progress-measures-grokking-mechanistic-interpretability/)** *(2023 · 228 citations)* Deep networks sometimes gain new abilities abruptly, which makes their behavior hard to anticipate. This work asks whether such jumps hide smooth underlying progress, and whether interpretability can reveal it. The test case is grokking: small transformers learning addition modulo a prime first memorize the training… 2. **[The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ngo-2022-alignment-problem-deep-learning-perspective/)** *(2022 · 121 citations)* The paper asks whether long-standing worries about misaligned AGI still hold when they are tied to current deep learning practice rather than to abstract arguments from classical AI. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jacob Steinhardt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacob-steinhardt/) - [Neel Nanda](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/neel-nanda/) - [Soren Mindermann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/soren-mindermann/) - [Tom Lieberum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-lieberum/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 237 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [54 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lawrence-chan/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026