Dan Braun
Member Of Technical Staff at Goodfire
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDan Braun is a Member of Technical Staff and AI researcher with nine years' experience focused on interpretability, security, and making large ML systems more understandable and controllable. He has held research and engineering roles at Conjecture, Apollo Research (as Lead Engineer and Security Lead), and Goodfire, and previously built data-efficient, explainable models at NukkAI using Bridge as a testbed. His background blends rigorous computer science and advanced mathematics from the University of Sydney and Wollongong with practical products—earlier founding work produced profitable predictive sports models. A former professional card player who represented Australia in Bridge, he brings a strategic, game-theoretic perspective to AI safety and model behavior analysis.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyBachelor of Mathematics Advanced, Bachelor of Mathematics Advanced at University of Wollongong
Github Skills (23)
react7
partial6
visualizations6
visualization6
data-visualization5
api5
converting5
pytorch5
data-science4
machine-learning4
edward4
bayesian4
openai3
journal3
autoencoder3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
danbraunai/simple_stories_train
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Trains small LMs. Designed for training on SimpleStories
Contributions:22 reviews, 8 PRs, 7 pushes in 7 months
danbraunai/danbraunai.github.io
Sep 2021 - Jul 2024
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:12 pushes in 2 years 10 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
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