Research Engineer @ Epic Games | (Ex-PhD) Mechanistic Interpretability Researcher

I just finished my PhD, reverse-engineering neural networks to understand what how they think, so we can try to stop them from thinking bad things. Currently shipping production LLM systems alongside research.

• Working at Epic Games on Agentic AI (LLMs) to empower creators in the metaverse
• Doing Research on technical alignment - see my scholar page.
• Working as a research-engineering intern at Epic Games — scaling & fine-tuning LLMs for creative tools.
• Procrastinating with Side projects:
  • AI-Safety-Papers — a living reading-list with concise notes.

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