Nora Petrova
Staff AI Researcher at Apart Research
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNora Petrova is a Staff AI Researcher in London with a decade of engineering experience bridging full-stack development and machine learning. She has moved from hands-on software and DevOps roles into senior ML and safety research positions, currently working on activation steering and latent adversarial training to improve refusal behaviours in LLMs. Her recent work spans applied safety research at Prolific, LASR Labs and Apart Research, investigating which activation directions most influence model outputs using KL-divergence–based analysis. Nora combines product-focused engineering leadership (Signal AI, Primer.ai) with deep technical training in reinforcement learning and ML engineering from Udacity, and an academic grounding in physics and IT. Colleagues appreciate her rare mix of pragmatic production experience and rigorous model interpretability research.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Physics at The Open UniversityDeep Reinforcement Learning Artificial Intelligence, Deep Reinforcement Learning Artificial Intelligence at UdacityBA Information Technology, BA Information Technology at Molde University College
English, Bulgarian, Norwegian
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Github Skills (21)
behave10
gherkin10
behavior-driven-development10
bdd9
python8
couchdb3
storage3
user-interface2
auth-service2
database2
tornado1
security1
api-platform1
authentication1
identity1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
CDECatapult/behave
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 7 days
pythonbddpython-style
openpermissions/perch
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Open Permissions Platform - CouchDB Library
Contributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 17 pushes in 13 days
couchdbpermissionsdatabasestorage
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