Aditya Prasad
CBG Grantee at The Centre for Effective Altruism
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAditya Prasad is a PhD researcher at IISc and a Prime Minister's Research Fellow focused on computational data science and AI alignment, with 11 years of technical and community-building experience. He coordinates national AI safety efforts as a CBG grantee at the Centre for Effective Altruism, mentoring talent into impactful roles and organizing retreats, hackathons, and campus outreach across India. His work blends rigorous theory — attending workshops like Singular Learning Theory and SERI MATS — with practical projects and mentorship that have led mentees to fellowships, grants, and roles at evaluation companies. He has spoken on the landscape of AI safety at EA Global London and participated in unusual interdisciplinary training such as a MAPLE AI fellowship combining contemplative practice with agent foundations research. Comfortable moving between research, operations, and public engagement, he also brings hands-on software experience from earlier Android development and field-tested resilience from a military-grade mountaineering course.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics and Computer Science at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)Bachelor’s Degree, Instrumentation and Control Engginering, 7.63, Bachelor’s Degree, Instrumentation and Control Engginering, 7.63 at National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli+2, +2 at Maharishi International Residential SchoolVisiting International Student, CS161 and Stats202, Undergraduate, Visiting International Student, CS161 and Stats202, Undergraduate at Stanford University
English, Malayalam
Stackoverflow
1,064reputation
313kreached
6answers
1question
algorithm
top-5%
Github Skills (22)
algorithm9
eclipse6
graph-theory6
shortest-path6
android6
mathjax6
java6
authentication6
greedy6
dijkstra6
readline5
bash4
powershell4
android-app3
windows3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
anantham/Smart-Bike
Dec 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 months
android-appkotlinandroid-studioandroid
anantham/Stats202
Jul 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
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