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Erik Brinkman

I am a researcher at LinkedIn currently working on LLM fairness and safety. Before joining LinkedIn, I did similar work at Meta from 2018 to 2025, after completing my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Michigan in 2018. I was advised by Michael Wellman.

I'm primarily interested in understanding and mitigating bias in AI systems, but my research interests include the incentives and dynamics in complex systems. My research often involves embedding learning, user representation, fairness, recommender systems as markets, and general learning.

GOAT
Automated Multi-turn Red Teaming
D3 DAG
DAG layout library
Empirical Mechanism Design
EC 2017
reMarkable ePub
ePub render for reMarkable

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