Edouard Harris
Co-Founder at Gladstone AI
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEdouard Harris is a founder and technical leader with a decade of experience at the intersection of AI, startups, and public-sector risk reduction. As Co-Founder and CTO of Gladstone, he builds tools and trains senior government and military leaders to ensure AI systems are acquired and deployed safely, and has personally briefed Cabinet-level officials and allied partners. A serial entrepreneur and YC alumnus, he previously co-founded SharpestMinds to scale mentorship for early-career engineers and has hands-on full-stack engineering and AI safety research experience. He publishes widely read essays and maintains open-source work investigating power-seeking behavior in reinforcement learning, reflecting a blend of rigorous research and practical tooling. Based in Mountain View and holding a PhD in physics from the University of Toronto, he combines deep technical grounding with a knack for translating complex AI risks into operational policy and product solutions.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
W18, W18 at Y CombinatorDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics at University of TorontoBachelor’s Degree Physics, Bachelor’s Degree Physics at University of Ottawa
English, French
Github Skills (5)
apply10
python8
science8
machine-learning7
data-science6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sharpest-minds/hiring-tips
Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
Compendium of tips to help you apply to machine learning and data science jobs.
Contributions:142 commits, 84 PRs, 142 pushes in 10 months
pythonsciencecompendiumdata-sciencemachine-learning
gladstoneai/POWERplay
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:208 commits in 11 months
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