Aidan Kierans
Graduate Research Assistant
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAidan Kierans is a PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant specializing in AI alignment and moral reasoning, collaborating closely with MIT’s Algorithmic Alignment Group. He is first author on an AAAI paper quantifying agent misalignment and contributes to frontier model safety as an OpenAI red-teamer. Beyond research, Aidan builds infrastructure for the field—leading the Moral Knowledge Graph dataset, founding an AI safety fellowship at UConn, and prototyping an AI safety auditing nonprofit. His background in both computer science and philosophy informs a rare combination of technical rigor and normative clarity, which he applies to policy work at CDT and government-facing education programs. With eight years of experience across research, teaching, and applied safety engineering, he focuses on making AI systems both well-aligned and governable.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering at University of ConnecticutBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science with a concentration in Data Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science with a concentration in Data Science at Virginia Commonwealth University
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Github Skills (33)
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning10
extraction10
mining10
deep-learning10
natural-language-processing10
text-mining10
nlp10
transformers9
language-model9
bert9
tensorflow9
information-extraction9
medical9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aidankierans/Portfolio
Sep 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
aidankierans/transformers
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
🤗 Transformers: State-of-the-art Natural Language Processing for TensorFlow 2.0 and PyTorch.
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 day
pytorchnlptransformersartbert
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