James Payor
AI Alignment Researcher at Self-employed
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJames Payor is an AI alignment researcher in Austin with 11 years of technical experience, blending rigorous research from a five-year stint at MIRI with product and engineering leadership as Draftable’s CTO. He focuses on the risks of open-ended AI development and advocates alternative paths for safer progress, while independently developing alignment projects since 2022. Trained in both mathematics and computer science at MIT and UNSW and an IOI alumnus, he combines formal problem-solving chops with practical software delivery. His background in algorithms, full‑stack engineering, and competitive computing gives him a rare ability to move between theoretical alignment work and shipping code that tests ideas in practice.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mathematics and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science at UNSW Australia
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Github Skills (84)
infrastructure10
assignment-problem10
binary-search10
infrastructure-management9
package-repository9
scale9
optimizers9
difference9
python9
kd-tree9
remote-execution9
docker9
zeromq9
infrastructure-as-code9
saltstack9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GallagherCommaJack/markets
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:77 commits, 1 PR, 42 pushes in 7 days
ethereummarketsblockchaindefi
jamespayor/weighted-bipartite-perfect-matching
Dec 2017 - Jun 2021
Fast C++ implementation of an O(NM) algorithm for the assignment problem.
Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 years 6 months
cppkd-treeassignment-problemnearest-neighborsproblem
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