Aeree Cho
Georgia Tech machine learning PhD student and lead author of the open-source Transformer Explainer
- Machine learning PhD student in the Polo Club of Data Science (since fall 2024), Georgia Institute of Technology12
Aeree Cho is a machine learning PhD student at Georgia Tech, advised by Polo Chau in the Polo Club of Data Science. Cho is first author of Transformer Explainer, an interactive, open-source visualization for learning how text-generative transformer models work, presented at IEEE VIS 2024 and ACM CHI 2026.134
Research
Cho joined the Polo Club of Data Science at Georgia Tech as a computer science master's student researcher in spring 2024 and began a machine learning PhD there in fall 2024, advised by Polo Chau.1
Cho is first author of Transformer Explainer, which lets learners run a GPT-2 model in the browser and explore how a transformer generates text. The tool was presented as an IEEE VIS 2024 poster and as a paper at ACM CHI 2026. Cho is also a co-author of a 2025 EMNLP survey on interpretation methods for improving the safety of large language models.341
Work
Transformer ExplainerOpen-source code
First author of the Transformer Explainer paper and first-listed creator of the tool in the repository credits, which also name Cho as the contact for questions.34
Career timeline
2024
Began research in the Polo Club of Data Science as a computer science master's student.1
2024
Began a machine learning PhD at Georgia Tech, advised by Polo Chau.1
Aug 2024
Posted the Transformer Explainer paper as first author.3
2025
Co-authored an EMNLP 2025 survey on interpretation methods for improving LLM safety.1
2026
Presented Transformer Explainer as a paper at ACM CHI 2026.41
Honors and recognition
- Rising Star Doctoral Student Research Award (outstanding first-year PhD student) · Georgia Institute of Technology1
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