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Find US-based PhDs in physics or math who mention doing paid AI evaluation, RLHF, or reasoning-trace work on the side.

75 results across 75 people

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Tianhong Yu
Tianhong Yu19y exp
AI Data Strategy Advisor (RLHF/Post-Training) | PhD Astrophysics | Former CEO, Origin Space (Launched 5 Satellites)
Houston, Texas, United States· 1y at co.
2
Ryan Sullivan
Ryan Sullivan11y exp
PhD student at the University of Maryland, College Park | RLHF Student Researcher at Google
College Park, Maryland, United States· 1y at co.Possibly open
3
Irina Yu
Irina Yu13y exp
Reinforcement Learning | Evaluation | Post-Training | LLMs | GenAI Agents | Agentic AI | PhD
Seattle, Washington, United States· 1y at co.
4
MA
Mo. A.13y exp
Staff Machine Learning Software Engineer @ Google | PhD | ex-Microsoft | ex-CoPilot | Gemini | LLMs, JAX, CUDA | RLHF, Agents Orchestration
San Francisco Bay AreaRecently started
5
Yusibeska Ramos
Yusibeska Ramos23y exp
Ph.D in Cell Biology
State College, Pennsylvania, United StatesRecently started
6
Arno Candel
Arno Candel28y exp
Maker of H2O-3 (open-source ML), Driverless AI (AutoML), h2oGPTe (enterprise GenAI) | ex-CTO H2O.ai (seed → $1.7B) | ex-xAI, computer-use agents | PhD Physics, ETH Zürich
Los Gatos, California, United States
7
Juan Manuel Contreras
Juan Manuel Contreras13y exp
AI Evaluation & Data Science Leader | Model Behavior & Safety | Co-Founder & CEO, Aymara | ex-Uber Applied Science | Harvard PhD
Washington, District of Columbia, United States· 2y at co.Likely open
8
Michelle Watt
Michelle Watt25y exp
STEM Training & Curriculum Development | PhD Chemist | Lab Operations | Scientific Documentation
Longmont, Colorado, United StatesRecently started
9
Kung-Hsiang Huang
Kung-Hsiang Huang12y exp
Post-training @ Amazon AGI SF Lab | UIUC CS PhD
United StatesRecently started
10
Ameya Patil
Ameya Patil13y exp
Sr. Applied Scientist @ Amazon | Multi-modal Post-training, Video Understanding, & MLLMs | UIUC PhD
San Francisco Bay Area· 2y at co.
11
Varun Prashant Gangal
Varun Prashant Gangal14y exp
Researcher, AI / LLMs / Evals @ Patronus AI (co-auth. MemTrack, Humanity’s Last Exam, TRAIL, HalluWorld) | Amazon AGI (‘24-’25, Nova I) | ASAPP Inc. (‘22-’24) | PhD, CMU CS (‘16-’22) | IIT Madras | Angel Investor
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States· 1y at co.
12
G M Shahariar
G M Shahariar8y exp
Applied Science Intern @ Microsoft | PhD Student @ UC Riverside | Reasoning Language Models | Agentic LLMs | Multimodal AI Safety
Riverside, California, United StatesRecently started
13
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Artur Niezgoda10y exp
Data annotator | Quantum Information | PhD Physics
New York, New York, United States· 1y at co.
14
Jing Conan Wang
Jing Conan Wang16y exp
Founder & CEO @ DeepVista | Ex-Google Brain | PhD (Reinforcement Learning) | Co-Founder, FounderCoHo (200k+ community)
Sunnyvale, California, United States· 1y at co.
15
Jing Xu
Jing Xu13y exp
Research Engineer, Meta FAIR | LLMs, Reasoning, Alignment, Memory | Penn PhD
New York, New York, United States· 6y at co.Likely open
16
Roberta Raileanu
Roberta Raileanu14y exp
Open-Endedness Team Lead and Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind | Honorary Associate Professor at UCL | NYU PhD in Computer Science 2021 | Princeton BA in Astrophysics 2016 | IPhO 2011 & 2012
New York City Metropolitan AreaRecently started
17
ZW
Zhongruo W.7y exp
PhD | Agentic RL | coding agent | Lean | mathematical optimization | need h1b and I-485J sponsor
Mountain View, California, United States· 4y at co.Likely open
18
Guanqun Yang
Guanqun Yang11y exp
PhD Candidate @ Stevens | 2x Intern at Capital One AI Foundations | Agent Privacy and Security, LLM Post Training, RAG
New York City Metropolitan Area· 6y at co.Likely open
19
Shriraj Sawant
Shriraj Sawant10y exp
AI Engineer and Research Scientist | Ph.D (IIT-GN) | Applied ML & LLM Systems | Brain-Inspired AI Enthusiast | NeurIPS’20 | GSoC’17
United StatesRecently started
20
Yaohui Ding
Yaohui Ding9y exp
Senior ML/AI Engineer | CS PhD, Embedding & Search | LLM RAG & Agentic | FT & RL | Vision-Language | Multi-Modal | Serving Optimization
Greater Boston· 1y at co.
21
Jai Prakash Veerla
Jai Prakash Veerla8y exp
AI Research Scientist & Engineer | LLM/VLM Safety & Trustworthy Multimodal AI | 2× Google Student Researcher (Cloud Responsible AI · DeepMind · XR) | Foundation Models for Healthcare | CS PhD
San Francisco Bay AreaRecently started
22
Kostas Hatalis
Kostas Hatalis14y exp
AI Architect & Technical Advisor | PhD Deep Learning | Private & On-Prem AI | Data Analytics, RAG, Agents, LLMOps, Governance
Allentown, Pennsylvania, United StatesRecently started
23
Andrew Ressler
Andrew Ressler33y exp
Chief AI Officer | CTO | Enterprise AI Transformation & Delivery Leader | Building Production AI Platforms, Agents & Data Products | MIT PhD (AI)
North Reading, Massachusetts, United States· 4y at co.Likely open
24
Dennis Wesson
Dennis Wesson27y exp
Senior DevOps Engineer | Driving Infrastructure & CI/CD Transformation | AWS | Kubernetes | Terraform | PhD Physicist
Watkinsville, Georgia, United StatesRecently started
25
Kartik G Bhat
Kartik G Bhat20y exp
Founding Scientist @ MightyAI | AI engineer/researcher | Berkeley PhD, ex-Intel
San Francisco Bay Area· 1y at co.
Haoqian Li
Haoqian Li10y exp
Ph.D. in ISyE & CS at UW Madison; MS in OR at Columbia University; Innovating with LLM Applications & DRL Agent in LLM
Madison, Wisconsin, United States· 1y at co.
Kolby Nottingham
Kolby Nottingham10y exp
Head of AI @ Latitude Games | Creator of MINDcraft Bot | CS PhD on grounding LLM Agents
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area· 1y at co.
Mike M.
Mike M.20y exp
CISO & CAIO | PhD in applied AI/ML | Building & Securing Agentic AI Systems | Ethical Hacker |
Miami, Florida, United StatesRecently started
Marc Ettlinger
Marc Ettlinger30y exp
Building AI that understands people | Meta Reality Labs | PhD Linguist | Ex-Google, Founder
Berkeley, California, United States· 4y at co.Likely open
Muhammad Shihab Rashid
Muhammad Shihab Rashid9y exp
Senior ML Engineer at Apple  | PhD | Agentic AI
Greater Seattle AreaRecently started
Souvik Das
Souvik Das11y exp
NLP Researcher || PhD in NLP
New York, New York, United StatesRecently started
Qiang Fu
Qiang Fu13y exp
Cellular Systems Performance Engineer at Apple | Deep Reinforcement Learning & Wireless Systems Research | Bluetooth SIG Member | Ph.D. | H-1B | EB-2 NIW
San Jose, California, United States· 1y at co.
Leah Stone
Leah Stone27y exp
AI Strategist & Business Model Researcher | Human-Computer Interaction | PhD | at Google
Denver Metropolitan Area· 4y at co.Likely open
Caleb Payne
Caleb Payne19y exp
Worlds first Phd doctorate in Social engineering ..lol ✌🏿🤝🏿
United States· 3y at co.Likely open
Biao Yin
Biao Yin8y exp
Senior AI Research Scientist | Data Science PhD | LLMs for Healthcare & Scientific Discovery | 25+ Applied AI Publications (Nature/AMIA/ACL/CIKM) | 1 AI Patent Issued and In-Use | Ex-Amazon | Ex-IFLYTEK
United States· 2y at co.Likely open
Nusrat Prottasha
Nusrat Prottasha4y exp
Applied Scientist Intern @Adobe | CS PhD Student & GRA at UCF | Ex-Amazon Alexa | Ex-Nokia Bell Labs | Former Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant and CS MSc Student at SIT
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States· 1y at co.Possibly open
Samuel Fernandes
Samuel Fernandes16y exp
PhD| Scientific Program Manager | Machine Learning Researcher
Berkeley, California, United States· 7y at co.Likely open
Bhavin Jawade
Bhavin Jawade11y exp
Research @ Netflix | PhD @ UB-CSE | Prev. Research Intern at Netflix, Yahoo, Adobe | ML, LLMs, CV, AI
San Francisco Bay Area· 1y at co.
Lori Culberson
Lori Culberson20y exp
Founder & CEO, STEM Excellence | Personalized MCAT prep and premed support | MD and PhD coaches helping students reach medical school
Greater Tucson Area· 8y at co.Likely open
Meysam Ghaffari
Meysam Ghaffari13y exp
Lead AI/ML Scientist | Ph.D. in Computer Science | Author | Multimodal GenAI & Multi-Agent Specialist | Inventor
New York City Metropolitan Area· 1y at co.
Athiban Natarajan
Athiban Natarajan4y exp
ECE Ph.D. Student @ Georgia Tech | Computer Architecture | High-Level Synthesis | FPGA & RTL Design | Hardware-Software Co-Design
Gainesville, Florida, United StatesRecently started
Yaniece Dent
Yaniece Dent11y exp
Ph.D. Candidate | Regional Clinical Director
Atlanta, Georgia, United States· 3y at co.Possibly open
S. A. I. Shouborno
S. A. I. Shouborno10y exp
Sensor-aware ML | Wearable Health Monitoring & Cyber-Physical Systems | PhD Candidate
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States· 3y at co.Likely open
Md Abu Sayed
Md Abu Sayed9y exp
PhD Student @ UTEP CS | Applied Scientist Intern @Microsoft | Cybersecurity, Computer Networks, Game Theory, LLM, CLU, PII
El Paso, Texas, United States· 1y at co.
Isaac Bishof
Isaac Bishof17y exp
AI Engineer @ KeyBank | Co-Founder @ Florida Legal | Ph.D.
San Francisco, California, United StatesRecently started
Xinya Du
Xinya Du8y exp
Cornell CS PhD / UTD AP / LLM researcher
Richardson, Texas, United States· 4y at co.Likely open
Eskandar Ataallah
Eskandar Ataallah14y exp
PhD Student | International Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution | Master of Global Affairs 2024 | Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies | Keough School of Global Affairs | University of Notre Dame
United States
Yue Liu
Yue Liu14y exp
PhD in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | Patent Law Track | Patent Agent / Technical Specialist Candidate | Biotech, Biologics & Diagnostics
United States· 1y at co.Likely open
Abhishek Joshi
Abhishek Joshi8y exp
CS PhD Researcher | Research Intern @Toyota R&D | Autonomous Driving, World Models & Generative AI | ML + Real-Time Systems
Corpus Christi, Texas, United StatesRecently started
Rakesh Salian
Rakesh Salian22y exp
PhD Candidate at Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa, United States· 4y at co.Likely open
Saleem Ahmed
Saleem Ahmed12y exp
AI Research Engineering | ML PhD
San Francisco Bay Area· 2y at co.Likely open
Wenting Liu
Wenting Liu15y exp
Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics PhD Candidate
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States· 2y at co.
Tarun Suresh
Tarun Suresh4y exp
CS PhD @ Stanford
San Francisco, California, United StatesRecently started
Bridget Beamon - Robertson
Bridget Beamon - Robertson23y exp
AI & Technology Strategy Leader | Applied AI, R&D & Innovation | Technical Thought Leadership | Systems Engineering | Ph.D. | Wharton CTO Program
McKinney, Texas, United States· 6y at co.Likely open
Diego Domínguez Ferrera
Diego Domínguez Ferrera19y exp
Co-Founder & CTO @ Silent Witness | AI/ML & Computer Vision | PhD Logic, Computation & AI | ex-Notch CTO
Los Angeles, California, United StatesRecently started
Alessio Signorini
Alessio Signorini27y exp
CTO & Co-Founder, Evidation Health | PhD | AI + Healthcare | 18 Publications + 10 Patents
Santa Barbara, California, United States· 11y at co.Likely open
Daniel Olguin Olguin
Daniel Olguin Olguin21y exp
CFO | Venture-Backed & High-Growth Technology Companies | $50M+ Raised | Turnaround & Transaction Readiness | MIT PhD
Washington, District of Columbia, United States· 1y at co.
Subhabrata Mukherjee
Subhabrata Mukherjee14y exp
Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer at Hippocratic AI. PhD.
Greater Seattle Area· 3y at co.Possibly open
Joan Palmiter Bajorek
Joan Palmiter Bajorek11y exp
CEO @Clarity AI, PhD in AI, Helping Health/MedTech/Lifesciences/BioTech CEOs with AI to Boost Revenue and Impact, Results: $12M ARR Increase, 10x Startup Valuation Boost, Investor Scout, x-Edwards Lifesciences Advisor
Greater Seattle Area· 3y at co.Recently started
Caleb Heinzman
Caleb Heinzman9y exp
AI and ML Leader Building Production-Grade Systems at Scale | PhD Researcher in Computer Vision | AI Product Strategist | GenAI Pioneer | 8 Years Driving Innovation in Fintech, Autonomous Systems, Healthcare
Columbia, Missouri, United States· 4y at co.Likely open
Piers Nash
Piers Nash23y exp
AI & Data Executive | Digital Transformation Leader | Speaker on AI, Institutions, and Innovation/Adaptation | Booth MBA | PhD | Last Mile GenAI | Entrepreneur CEO/CDO (patented data-governance) | Board Advisor
Chicago, Illinois, United StatesRecently started
Rob Conant
Rob Conant35y exp
CEO, ept AI | AI for enterprise sales where deals are complex, cycles are long, and trust decides | Proven with semiconductor & industrial OEM leaders | Berkeley EECS PhD
Burlingame, California, United States· 2y at co.
Orkun Karabasoglu
Orkun Karabasoglu22y exp
Helping Companies Reduce Employee Stress | Founder @ Visutate App (Apple Vision Pro, Meta, XREAL) | PhD CMU → Postdoc MIT → Faculty @ CMU-SYSU → Entrepreneur (@Visutate)
San Francisco, California, United States· 4y at co.Likely open
Alice Albrecht
Alice Albrecht22y exp
AI Researcher & Founder | Cognitive Neuroscience PhD (Yale) | Founded re:collect (acq. SmartNews) | Building agentic AI systems
New York City Metropolitan AreaRecently started
Miguel Paredes
Miguel Paredes22y exp
Generative AI, AI & Data Science Consultant and former Executive, Startup & VC advisor and investor, MIT PhD, Harvard HBS, and CS undergrad
San Francisco Bay AreaRecently started
Jaydeep Borkar
Jaydeep Borkar6y exp
PhD Candidate @ Northeastern | Research Intern @ Meta (MSL Safety)
New York, New York, United StatesRecently started
Joseph Florence
Joseph Florence21y exp
Policy Researcher & Data Scientist | International Political Economy | Quantitative Methods | PhD Candidate, Cornell
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United StatesRecently started
Deana B.
Deana B.23y exp
AI Product Leader & Founder, Talawa.ai | 0-to-1 GenAI Products | Ex-Google Area 120 GM & UX | Scaling Platforms to 1B+ Users | PhD, Human-Centered Computing | CPG Tech Startup
United States· 3y at co.Likely open
Hansol Lee
Hansol Lee9y exp
PhD in Education Data Science @ Stanford
Stanford, California, United States· 3y at co.Likely open
Marcin Kadluczka
Marcin Kadluczka28y exp
Senior Principal, Data Science & AI Platform at Dropbox | AI Platforms, Conversational BI, Search & Monetization | Ex-Twitter, Google, Yahoo | Ph.D.
San Jose, California, United StatesRecently started
David Huberdeau
David Huberdeau20y exp
Research Scientist — AI/ML & Human Behavior Modeling | Human-Machine Teaming • NLP/LLMs • Computational Neuroscience | PhD, Principal Investigator
Greater Boston· 5y at co.Likely open
Ron D'Vari
Ron D'Vari32y exp
Managing Partner & Founder @NewOak Capital-A modern investment and operating platform powering partnerships and economies | Ph.D, MBA, CFA | Investor–Builder | Venture Scale-Up | Project/Trade Finance | Capital Markets|
New York, New York, United States· 9y at co.Recently started
Jeff Weinstein
Jeff Weinstein23y exp
PhD Economist & Product Leader | Building Quantitative Infrastructure at the 0-to-1 Stage | FinTech · LaborTech · EdTech · Consumer Credit · ML/AI Products
Ashburn, Virginia, United States· 4y at co.Likely open
Shaikh Akib Shahriyar
Shaikh Akib Shahriyar9y exp
AI Security Researcher | Ph.D. Candidate @ RIT | Adversarial ML, Deepfake Detection & GenAI Safety
Rochester, New York, United States· 6y at co.Likely open
Amber Hamilton
Amber Hamilton14y exp
Commercial Marketing VP | Full-Funnel Demand Generation & Enterprise Paid Media |Omnichannel Growth for Fortune-500 Portfolios | Retail Media • CTV •Audio •Search • Social | Ph.D.
Charlotte Metro· 1y at co.

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