Cyrus Nikolaidis
AI Research Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCyrus Nikolaidis is an AI Research Engineer at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs with 11 years of engineering experience building secure, large-scale ML systems. He moved through software roles at Meta, Instagram, Lyft and Facebook, combining hands-on production engineering with graduate-level CS training from the University of Michigan. At Meta he focuses on safety and security for open-source models and contributes to the Llama ecosystem and PurpleLlama, strengthening defenses for community AI deployments. Known for bridging research and production, he applies rigorous academic foundations to practical threat-mitigation and model-hardening efforts. Based in New York, he brings cross-domain experience from physics-influenced CS thinking to real-world AI safety engineering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Michigan
Github Skills (14)
pytorch10
python10
langchain10
llm9
ai9
machine-learning9
llama9
smart-contracts1
contract1
typescript1
solidity1
istanbul1
ethereum1
blockchain1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cynikolai/FastVideoObjectDetector
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
cynikolai/cynikolai.github.io
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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