Technical AI Safety & AGI Strategy
Curriculum Vitae
Girish Gupta
AI researcher combining training in theoretical physics, hands-on Silicon Valley AI and software engineering leadership, and a decade as an investigative reporter covering global crises from Venezuela to Iraq.
Papers
Lucia Quirke, Louis Jaburi, David Johnston, William Z. Li, Gonçalo Paulo, Guillaume Martres, Girish Gupta, Stella Biderman, Nora Belrose
arXiv · 2026
Jacob Davies, Rhea E Karty, Girish Gupta, Nathaniel Mitrani Hadida, David Williams-King, Andrew Draganov
ICML 2026 · Mech Interp Workshop
Muhammad Khan, Shlok Channawar, Akshaj Gurugubelli, Girish Gupta, Aditya Shah
ICML 2026 · Mech Interp Workshop
Experience
Apr 2026 –
Independent AI Safety Researcher
- Contribute to EleutherAI's open-source data-attribution library — influence-function and related methods to trace LLM behaviours back to training data; volunteering with interpretability lead Lucia Quirke.
- Work on persona geometry alongside former Cambridge ERA colleagues, and mentor researchers through Algoverse.
Apr 2026 –
Course Facilitator — Technical AI Safety
Feb – Apr 2026
Technical AI Safety Research Fellow, Cambridge ERA
- Researched the interpretability of machine unlearning — why existing safety interventions are brittle under tampering. Mentored by Lucia Quirke (EleutherAI) and Kyle O'Brien (Geodesic Research).
- Built an end-to-end codebase with custom pipelines for training models across a dozen unlearning algorithms; engineered a dynamic multi-GPU dispatch system to parallelise hyperparameter sweeps; developed mechanistic experiments comparing parameter and activation matrices' norms, singular values, etc.
Nov 2021 – Nov 2025
- Led engineering and AI development across multiple venture-backed startups. At Tellen, led technology for a platform serving audit, accounting and financial services — architected and shipped a full-stack, SOC 2–compliant system with a sophisticated RAG pipeline, deployed into client-owned cloud environments and connected to private AI endpoints. Built and managed globally distributed teams of engineers.
Mar – Oct 2021
Author, Always Go
- A celebration and critique of the news industry. Finalist, 2024 San Francisco Writers' Conference.
Apr 2020 – Mar 2021
CTO, Deepnews
- Trained and deployed recurrent-, convolutional- and transformer-based models to evaluate news articles.
May 2019 – May 2020
Head of Data Science, IDFC Institute
- Created a data-science unit at the Rockefeller-, Gates- and Ford-funded public-policy non-profit.
- Published research, built platforms, created interactives, and advised the government on urban mobility, open-source mapping (GIS), privacy/data governance, and COVID-19.
Dec 2014 – Apr 2020
Creator, Venezuela Econ
Founder & CEO, Data Drum
Founder & CEO, Data Drum
- Founded and led a startup providing automated, accessible economic data for public use — beginning with the leading data platform on one of the world's most opaque countries.
Jun 2015 – May 2018
Senior Correspondent, Reuters
- Produced major investigations: that the results of a national Venezuelan election were fabricated; secrets about the country's military, including surface-to-air missile inventories and lists of soldiers arrested for treason and rebellion; that the Chief Justice was arrested on suspicion of murder; and multi-billion-dollar corruption at Venezuela's state oil company.
- Produced text, photos and TV on Venezuela's hyperinflation, social decay, food riots and protests.
- Based in Venezuela; reported also in Iraq, Afghanistan, the United States, Colombia and Ecuador.
- Wrote software to automate story-writing, data-gathering and admin, and used OSINT techniques.
- Coordinated on-the-ground and digital security in an extremely hostile environment.
Oct 2010 – May 2015
Freelance Foreign Correspondent
Reuters · New Yorker · New York Times · TIME · Financial Times · NPR · BBC … (some 50 outlets)
- Produced text, photos, video and radio in Venezuela, as well as Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, Guyana, Jordan, Lebanon, Peru and Mexico.
- Covered the cancer, election and death of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, the messy transition to Nicolás Maduro's rule and the humanitarian crisis that followed, including daily violent unrest.
- Investigated diamond smuggling from illegal jungle mines in the Amazon, a Colombian paramilitary massacre, and the killing of wildcat gold miners there.
Sep 2007 – Jul 2008
Officer Cadet, Officers' Training Corps
British Army · Part-time · Greater Manchester, England
- Training in first aid, weapon handling, drill, leadership, fieldcraft and military tactics.
May 2000 – Nov 2001
Creator, Music Goes On
Freelance · England
- Built a music website listed by MTV as one of the web's top 20 sources.
Education
May 2024 – Jul 2026
Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University
- Machine Learning (XCS229), Natural Language Processing (XCS224N), Natural Language Understanding (XCS224U), Reinforcement Learning (XCS234).
Sep 2022 – Jun 2023
Theoretical Physics, Open University
- The Relativistic Universe (S383): General Relativity and Cosmology.
Sep 2006 – Jun 2010
Physics (Master's), University of Manchester
- Abstract to Master's thesis — an atrial fibrillation simulation — published in Proceedings of The Physiological Society. Bachelor's thesis on negative index of refraction. Essay on the physics of music.
Sep 2005 – Jun 2006
Natural Sciences, King's College, Cambridge University
Mathematics · Physics · Chemistry · Geology
Courses & training
Generative AI with Large Language Models
Introduction to Computer Science
Deep Learning Specialization
Also: multiple Hostile Environment Training and First Aid courses; the British Army's Military Training Qualification 1; open-source investigation at Berkeley's Human Rights Center; development psychology; music theory; and fellowships at On Deck.
Side projects
Build an LLM LLM ProbeBerkeley Human Rights Center — AI investigative toolkitPhoto book on Venezuela (2023–25)Math for Journalists (iOS)According to DocumentsReadwise2RoamGlobalOTP