Mikita Balesni
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
London, England, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMikita Balesni is an ML researcher and engineer with nine years of experience focused on empirical LLM safety and evaluating dangerous model capabilities. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, he previously co-founded Apollo Research to collaborate with frontier labs and governments on mitigating catastrophic AI risks. His background blends hands-on applied ML—improving news classification and publishing a NeurIPS '22 ML4AD first-author paper—with rigorous safety work at Stanford's Existential Risks Initiative. Comfortable moving between research and engineering, he has experience building production web applications, instrumenting interpretability analyses, and diagnosing large-scale dataset issues. Based in London, he combines multidisciplinary academic training in computer science and cybersecurity with a practical track record of turning alignment research into actionable evaluations.
9 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 Tartu Institute of Computer ScienceExchange Semester, Exchange Semester at Mississippi CollegeBachelor's degree, Cybersecurity, Bachelor's degree, Cybersecurity at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Github Skills (89)
pipeline9
nlp9
pytorch9
python8
deep-learning8
speech-recognition8
keras8
surface8
machine-learning8
fetch8
natural-language-processing8
tensorflow8
gps7
api7
transformer7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mbalesni/self-attention-rl
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
nick-baliesnyi/wams
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
An API for making Multi-Surface Applications
Contributions:150 commits, 2 PRs, 109 pushes in 2 months
usabilityapipythonsurface
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