# Peter H. Vartanian

Curriculum Vitæ

https://petervartanian.xyz/cv/

## I. **Experience**

### Current

| Organization | Dates |
| --- | --- |
| **Stealth** | Sep. 2026 – Present |
| **MIT AI Risk Initiative**[^*] | Jun. 2026 – Present |

### Previous

| Organization | Dates |
| --- | --- |
| **AI Risk Explorer**[^†] | Feb. 2026 – Jun. 2026 |
| **Family Office** | Aug. 2025 – Jun. 2026 |
| **Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University** | Aug. 2025 – Aug. 2025 |
| Director’s Award from Fmr. SecState Condoleezza Rice | Feb. 2026 |
| **FutureSafe at the Nuclear Threat Initiative** | Jun. 2025 – Aug. 2025 |
| **The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School** | Jan. 2025 – May 2025 |
| **City Hub and Network for Gender Equity** | Jan. 2025 – May 2025 |
| OECD Global Forum on Technology | Dec. 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 |
| **Human Rights Cities Alliance** | Jan. 2024 – May 2024 |
| **McKinnon Center for Global Affairs & John Parke Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy** | Mar. 2023 – May 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. 2021 – Jan. 2022; Dec. 2022 – Jan. 2023 |
| European Forum Alpbach | May 2022 – Aug. 2022 |
| The Occidental Newspaper | Sep. 2021 – May 2022 |

### Notes

**Bold entries** indicate primary authorship or substantive responsibility for my work undertaken.

[^*]: Facilitated by the [Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative](https://www.cbai.ai/) (CBAI) and [Coefficient Giving](https://coefficientgiving.org/).

[^†]: Facilitated by the [Supervised Program for Alignment Research](https://sparai.org/) (SPAR) and [Kairos](https://kairos-project.org/).

## II. **Education**

### Occidental College

Aug. 2021 – May 2025

Bachelor of Arts with Honors

- Major #1: Stuart Chevalier Program in Diplomacy + World Affairs (DWA)
- Major #2: Comparative Studies in Literature + Culture (CSLC)

#### Distinctions

Honors

- GPA: 3.97/4.00
- *Summa cum Laude*
- ΦBK (elected as a junior)
- Margaret Bundy Scott Scholarship (highest merit scholarship)

Awards

- DWA Award for Exemplary Achievement in Academic and Co-curricular Activities May 2025
- DWA Prize for Best Thesis Overall May 2025
- Alternate selection for the James C. Gaither Junior Fellowship at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Mar. 2025
- Critical Language Scholarship Mar. 2024
- Gilman International Scholarship Dec. 2023

### California Institute of Technology

Aug. 2021 – May 2025

Special Student

- Field of study: Interdisciplinary Studies Program (ISP)

#### Distinctions

Honors

- GPA: 4.00/4.00

Awards

- *Award for Best Paper* in multiple courses

## III. **Languages**

### A. Modern languages

My proficiencies follow the [ILR’s 0–5 scale](https://www.govtilr.org/Skills/ILRscale2.htm) (with + marking intermediate levels).

- German — 5
- Armenian — 4+
- Yiddish — 4+
- Spanish — 4
- French — 3+
- Portuguese — 3+
- Russian — 2+
- Korean — 2
- Amharic — 1+
- Arabic (Fuṣḥā and Lebanese) — 1+
- Italian — 1+
- Turkish — 1+
- Mandarin — 1

### B. Philological training

- Ancient Greek
- Classical Latin
- Classical Nahuatl

## IV. **Skills & methods**

### A. 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

### B. Tools + platforms

- QGIS + ArcGIS
- Promptfoo
- Garak
- Vector search + vector databases
- Docker

### C. AI / Security

- LLM + multimodal red teaming
- Prompt injection, jailbreak, + escalation-chain design
- Vulnerability reporting
- OSINT tooling

### D. 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