Aidan O'Gara Email & Phone Number

Washington Dc

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

• Worked with Lennart Heim on a report about closing loopholes in US export controls on GPUs

• Wrote a weekly newsletter on AI Safety for 10,000 readers: https://newsletter.safe.ai• Advised the UK Government on their AI Safety Summit• Submitted RFI responses on AI to US federal agencies

Fully Remote

• Coauthored survey paper on AI deception: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14752• Coauthored technical paper on LLM robustness: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=4N7v4w2r3b

Remote

• Coauthored a report on Bio + ML models governed by the White House Executive Order on AI: https://epochai.org/blog/biological-sequence-models-in-the-context-of-the-ai-directives

• Authored empirical paper on deception skills in large language models: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01404• Trained models at scale on distributed GPU clusters using model and data parallelism. • Supervised by Professor Lionel Levine at Cornell and Collin Burns at UC Berkeley.

Fully Remote

• Designed automated pricing algorithm for two-sided delivery marketplace. • Interviewed 20+ team members to build a consensus plan.• Developed KPIs for predictive models with live dashboard visualization via PostgreSQL. • Spearheaded response to international gas price spike in March 2022; adjusted payouts to drivers with real-time geo-data on gas prices, improving driver satisfaction and retention.

Greater New York City Area

• Left college at 19 to work full-time leading data science at a VC-backed fintech startup. • Engineered ML systems trained and continuously deployed on Google Cloud Platform. • Outperformed industry-standard FICO scores by 52% on key criteria for racial equity. • Established research partnerships with multiple leading economists at Top 5 universities. • Interviewed, hired, trained, and managed two full-time interns working on data science. • Presented models to VC investors, Stride closed seed round with $10M valuation.

Berkeley, Ca - Remote

• Conducted AI policy research at Berkeley-based think tank AI Impacts• Studied historical trends in general purpose technologies including healthcare and AI

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd (Dphil)

DPhil in artificial intelligence supervised by Michael Osborne and co-supervised by Robert Trager

Education record

Coursework: Data Structures and Algorithms, Computer Systems, Neural Natural Language Processing, Distributed and Parallel Programming.

Education record

Attended on full scholarship Winner of 2018 Amazon Alexa Hackathon Worked 20 hours / week with full-time classes Left after one year.

Education record

Hearn Speech and Debate - Public Forum, Extemp, Congress Studied Russian in Moscow on a State Department NSLI-Y Scholarship