Currently doing independent AI safety research and blogging!

In reverse date order, I’ve been a:

• Fellow in Astra Fellowship 2.0 with Redwood Research, mentored by Adam Kaufman

  • I wrote about my work in Untrusted advice for AI control: Short, strong advice significantly uplifts weak LLMs

• MATS 8.1 scholar, mentored by Micah Carroll

  • We wrote the paper Prompt Optimization Makes Misalignment Legible

• Software engineer at Google Gemini

  • Worked part-time with GDM Scalable Alignment on their MONA paper

• President of Cornell Effective Altruism

I enjoy tabletop games (as a player or GM), board games, meditation, partner dancing, bouldering, making music, reading (esp. hard sci-fi/​fantasy), podcasts, and hanging out with my friends.

The kind of intellectual work I enjoy often involves thinking about systems, working out what they incentivize, and iterating to improve those incentives.

I have not signed any contracts that I can’t mention exist, as of July 25, 2026. I’ll try to update this statement at least once a year, so long as it’s true. I added this statement thanks to the one in the gears to ascension’s bio.