Education

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Occidental College
Aug. 2021 – May 2025
Bachelor of Arts with Honors

1.Stuart Chevalier Program in Diplomacy + World Affairs (DWA)

2.Comparative Studies in Literature + Culture (CSLC)

3.97/4.00 · Summa cum Laude · ΦBK

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California Institute of Technology
Aug. 2021 – May 2025
Special Student
Social Sciences
4.00/4.00

Languages (per the Interagency Language Roundtable's Scale)

German

5

Armenian

4+

Yiddish

4+

Spanish

4

French

3+

Portuguese

3+

Russian

2+

Korean

2

Amharic

1+

Arabic

Fuṣḥā

1+

Lebanese

1+

Italian

1+

Turkish

1+

Mandarin

1

I am also
philologically
trained in

Anc. Greek

Cl. Latin

Cl. Nahuatl

Honors

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Director's Award from
the Hoover Institution Feb. 2026

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DWA Award for Exemplary Achievement in
Academic and Co-curricular Activities May 2025

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DWA Prize for Best Thesis Overall May 2025

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Alternate selection for the James C. Gaither Junior Fellowship
at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Mar. 2025

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Election to Phi Beta Kappa (as a Junior) Oct. 2024

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Critical Language Scholarship Mar. 2024

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Gilman International Scholarship Dec. 2023

Programming

Python (e.g., pandas, NumPy/SciPy, Jupyter, regex, NetworkX)

SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL, DuckDB, SQLite; joins, CTEs, aggregation)

R (e.g., tidyverse, ggplot2, data wrangling, reproducible analysis)

Bash (CLI + grep/sed/awk)

Datalog (incl. Soufflé + Flan)

Rust

Go

Git

LaTeX

Tools + platforms

QGIS + ArcGIS

Promptfoo

Garak

Vector search + vector databases

Docker

AI / Security

LLM + multimodal red teaming

Prompt injection, jailbreak, + escalation-chain design

Vulnerability reporting

OSINT tooling

Methods

Causal inference; natural, survey, + conjoint experiments

Event-data construction + fusion

Bayesian estimation

Scenario-based threat modeling

Social media/fora (via custom Python tools) + SOCMINT

Open-source + targeted research

Analytic-method design

I have worked, in sequence, at…

... currently:

MIT AI Risk Initiative⁠^*/** Jun. 2026 – Present

... and, previously:

AI Risk Explorer⁠^*/*** Feb. 2026 – Jun. 2026

Family Office⁠^*/**** Sep. 2025 – May 2026

Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University⁠^* Aug. 2025 – Aug. 2025

FutureSafe at the Nuclear Threat Initiative⁠^* Jun. 2025 – Aug. 2025

Harvard Negotiation Project⁠^* Jan. 2025 – May 2025

John Parke Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy Mar. 2023 – Aug. 2024;
Jan. 2025 – May 2025

OECD Mission Action Lab Dec. 2024 – Jan. 2025

Los Angeles Mayor's Office of International Affairs⁠^* Jan. 2024 – Jan. 2025

Verum Legalis: The Occidental College Law Review Jan. 2024 – Jan. 2025

Office of the Chair of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly⁠^* Aug. 2024 – Dec. 2024

Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College May 2024 – Aug. 2024

McKinnon Center for Global Affairs⁠^* Mar. 2023 – Aug. 2024

Bureau of Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce⁠^* Sep. 2023 – May 2024

Charles R. Blyth Fund at Occidental College Apr. 2023 – May 2024

Austrian Service Abroad May 2023 – Aug. 2023

U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Vienna Sep. 2022 – May 2023

Occidental Consulting Group Sep. 2022 – May 2023

Wolf Theiss⁠^***** Dec. 2022 – Jan. 2023

European Forum Alpbach May 2022 – Aug. 2022

The Occidental Newspaper Sep. 2021 – May 2022

Wolf Theiss Dec. 2021 – Jan. 2022

*Involving primary authorship or substantive execution of projects, as reflected on my LinkedIn and the Home page.

**Facilitated by the Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative (CBAI).

***Facilitated by the Supervised Program for Alignment Research (SPAR).

****Contracted by a confidential European family office.

*****Undertaken as a return engagement.