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US-based PhDs with peer-reviewed publications in RL or LLM evaluation who currently work as AI Trainers, Research Engineers, or on RLHF at frontier labs or vendors.
63 results across 63 people
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Rong-Ching Chang7y exp
Ph.D. candidate in CS @ UC Davis | LLM agent evaluation & alignment @ Scale AI | RLHF/GRPO, SFT on human preference data, scalable oversight | Published: ICWSM, AAAI, CogSci; NeurIPS 2026 under review
Davis, California, United States· 1y at co.Likely open
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Qiaoying Huang10y exp
Research Scientist at Meta Superintelligence Lab | LLM Post-Training & Evaluation | SFT · RLHF · VLM · Benchmarks · Synthetic Data | PhD CS
Bellevue, Washington, United States· 1y at co.
3
Sudipta Kar15y exp
Principal Applied Scientist @ Oracle Health AI | LLM Post-training (SFT · RLHF), Agents & Evaluation | Multilingual & Low-Resource NLP | PhD
Greater Seattle Area· 1y at co.
4
Xianzhong Ding11y exp
AI Research Scientist (LLMs, RLHF, Distributed Training) | Accenture | Postdoc at Berkeley Lab | PhD CS
Mountain View, California, United States· 1y at co.
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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
6
Parsa Mahmoudieh16y exp
Google Deepmind Researcher | CS PhD UC Berkeley BAIR
San Francisco Bay Area· 3y at co.Likely open
7
Mahak Goindani13y exp
Multimodal AI @ Google XR | Formerly Apple, Microsoft | Ph.D. in Reinforcement Learning, Purdue CS | IIT Madras
San Francisco Bay AreaRecently started
8
Siddhant Bhambri8y exp
Senior AI Research Engineer @ Samsung Research | PhD (LLMs, RL, User-facing AI) @ Yochan Lab, ASU
San Francisco Bay AreaRecently started
9
Vinay Kumar Verma10y exp
Amazon | PhD IITK | Post-Doc Duke | Generative AI | LLM | Reasoning | Multi-Model | Computer Vision | In-Context Learning | RLHF | Diffusion Model
Greater Seattle Area· 1y at co.
10
Partha Sarathi Dutta5y exp
AI Research Engineer | PhD | Argonne National Laboratory | Founder | LLM • RL • RAG • Agentic AI • Multimodal AI
Greater Chicago Area· 5y at co.Likely open
11
Aaron Broukhim11y exp
PhD Candidate @ UCSD | Preference Learning & RLHF for Audio-LLMs | ML × HCI
San Diego, California, United StatesRecently started
12
Sheelabhadra Dey13y exp
AI Research @ Gatik || PhD in RL @ Texas A&M
Mountain View, California, United States· 1y at co.Possibly open
13
Mourya Teja Kunuku9y exp
PhD Candidate in CS @ KSU | LLM Pre-training, Fine-tuning, RLHF, Model Optimization & Evaluation | Built Hopscotch4All & CogBench | 2x HP Research Intern
Marietta, Georgia, United States· 3y at co.Likely open
14
Vivek Kaushik, Ph.D.10y exp
AI Research Scientist @ eBay | Applied Mathematics Ph.D. | LLM, RHLF, DPO | Classical Pianist
Pleasanton, California, United States· 2y at co.
15
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.
16
Zeyu Zhang5y exp
ML Researcher | Trustworthy LLMs: Evaluation, RL Post-Training (GRPO/RLHF), Interpretability | Backtesting & Look-Ahead Bias | Stats PhD @ Northwestern | Seeking Summer 2027 Research Internships
Evanston, Illinois, United StatesRecently started
17
Alex Scarlatos13y exp
AI Research Engineer at Duolingo | PhD from UMass Amherst
St James, New York, United StatesRecently started
18
Utkarsh Soni10y exp
Data Scientist at Manulife | PhD at Arizona State University | Human-aware AI | RLHF | LLM researcher
Tempe, Arizona, United States· 1y at co.
19
Qucheng Peng6y exp
Final-year PhD Candidate (Multimodal LLM, RLHF, 3D Vision) | Intern @ NVIDIA | Ex-Amazon Applied Scientist Intern (Inclined) | Seeking 2026 Full-time
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Zahra Zahedi16y exp
AI Research Scientist @ Honda Research Institute USA, Inc. |
PhD CS @ ASU |
Human Centered AI | Responsible AI | Generative AI | RLHF
United States· 2y at co.
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Haochen W.9y exp
Software Engineer, Operations Research @ DoorDash | PhD in Multi-Agent RL, Collaborative and Explainable AI
San Francisco Bay AreaRecently started
22
Harshal Maske17y exp
Research Engineer @ FoMoCo | PhD, Machine Learning, UIUC | B.Tech IIT-Kgp | EB-1 Recipient
Urbana-Champaign Area· 7y at co.Likely open
23
Kim E.21y exp
Data Science PhD Candidate | AI Quality Assurance | Annotation & RLHF Specialist
Galveston, Texas, United States· 1y at co.
24
Aaron M. Hamby, Ph.D.28y exp
Ph.D. Molecular and Cell Biologist | Genomics, Precision Medicine, AI
San Francisco Bay AreaRecently started
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Ikechukwu Uchendu12y exp
CS PhD Candidate @ Harvard
Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesRecently started
Chulabhaya Wijesundara12y exp
Computer Science PhD Candidate at Northeastern University and Lead Research Engineer at STR
Greater Boston· 1y at co.
Francesco Pase8y exp
Founder in Physical AI - PhD in Information Theory & ML
United StatesRecently started
William Cai12y exp
Staff Research Engineer @ LinkedIn | Stanford PhD
New York, New York, United StatesRecently started
Neharika Jali7y exp
PhD Candidate @ CMU | IIT Bombay
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United StatesRecently started
Jiyao Li19y exp
Software & Data Engineer with a PhD Background in Optimization and AI Decision Systems
Logan, Utah, United StatesRecently started
Hengyue Liu13y exp
Research Engineer @Apple | Ph.D. from UC Riverside
Greater Seattle Area· 1y at co.Likely open
Ryan Sullivan11y exp
PhD student at the University of Maryland, College Park | RLHF Student Researcher at Google
College Park, Maryland, United StatesRecently started
Kartik Pandit6y exp
Phd Candidate @ NJIT (LLM for Hardware Design and LLM Safety ) | MS@UFL | Specializing in ML, DL, RL, Data Analytics & FPGA-Hardware, RLHF and CS-RLFH.
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States· 1y at co.
Zahir Alsulaimawi34y exp
Senior ML Engineer & Data Scientist | PhD | LLM Fine-tuning (RLHF/LoRA) · RAG · Computer Vision | PyTorch · vLLM · AWS MLOps.
Corvallis, Oregon, United States· 3y at co.
Jannat Ara Meem7y exp
Graduate Year Fellow | PhD Summer ‘26 | Looking for a full-time AI/ML Researcher/Applied Scientist Position | RAG, RLHF, LLM Reasoning & post-training, Agentic GenAI | Ex-NLP Intern @SRA
Riverside, California, United States· 4y at co.Likely open
Longqian Hu18y exp
Machine Learning Engineer | LLM Training & RLHF/PPO | Recommendation Systems | Ph.D. in Physics | M.S. in CS Candidate
San Jose, California, United StatesRecently started
Ali Larian7y exp
CS PhD Student @ University of Utah | Reward Learning | RLHF | AI Alignment
United States· 2y at co.Likely open
Osei Brempong8y exp
AI Engineer @ University of Utah | Specializing in Gen AI, NLP, ML, RLHF, Robotics… PhD in progress
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States· 4y at co.Likely open
SC- The Admissions Lab21y exp
PhD Triple Gold Medalist | Founder & Director | AI Training: RLHF, SFT, Red Teaming | Public Policy, Economics, Sociology & Higher Ed Research
San Francisco, California, United StatesRecently started
Feng Zhu2y exp
PhD candidate @North Carolina State University | B.E. & M.E. from Fudan University | Reinforcement Learning, Distributed Optimization, Federated Learning, RLHF, and Large Language Models
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Nikky Kho32y exp
Inc. 5000 Founder of 20 Multimillion Dollar Ventures | Creator of the AI Startup House | Global Keynote Speaker | White House Honoree | International #1 Bestselling AI Author | Visited 150+ Countries | PhD (c), JD, MBA
New York City Metropolitan AreaRecently started
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Sara Elias17y exp
Award-winning Filmmaker. Ph.D in Film. AI Media Producer
.Lead Content Producer. AI Marketing.
United StatesRecently started
Nikki Gregory19y exp
Clinical Psychologist, Ph.D. | Researcher | Educator | Executive Coach | Counselor | Lifelong Learner | Expert Contributor | AI Trainer for Psychology/Mental Health
United States· 13y at co.Likely open
Colin Seán Kavanagh8y exp
GenAI knowledge work in companies, public sector & education | PhD candidate information systems | Co-Founder techagogics & HoloNative
Greater Kiel AreaRecently started
Aashik Azim14y exp
PhD | ex-Meta
Bothell, Washington, United StatesRecently started
John Akintola12y exp
Postdoctoral Fellow, PhD, MSc, BSc ||Analytical, Materials and Polymer Chemistry |AI |ML/DL | Data Driven Product Development and Project Management.
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, United StatesRecently started
Jamie Chan7y exp
Assistant Director of Neuroscience PhD Program | Health Sector Management MBA Candidate | Driving Equity & Innovation Across Healthcare & Higher Education
Greater BostonRecently started
Parker Haratine12y exp
AI Training at SpaceXAI | PhD | Researcher & Published Writer
United StatesRecently started
SUMIT BALGUVHAR6y exp
PhD in Energy Harvesting (IIT Delhi) | Engineer & Educator | Embedded Systems • Applied AI | Analog/Digital • Sensors/Instrumentation • Embedded HW | MATLAB/Simulink • Python • LabVIEW | Piezoelectric smart-infra R&D
Jersey City, New Jersey, United StatesRecently started
Sushma Knavoor Madathil10y exp
Full-Stack | Front-End Developer | Doctoral Candidate(PhD)
California, United States· 2y at co.Likely open
Alden Moss15y exp
Scientist & Bioengineer (PhD) | Molecular Diagnostics & Assay Development | AI Training & Scientific Consulting
San Diego Metropolitan AreaRecently started
Lauren Riley20y exp
MBA and PhD strategy professional with specialized expertise in supporting alignment between excellent organizational culture and efficiency.
Statesville, North Carolina, United States· 1y at co.
Anam Farrukh13y exp
Robotics | Automotive | Avionics | Real-time Embedded Systems R&D | CS PhD Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesRecently started
Adal Rhoubeid9y exp
PhD Candidate in Peace & Conflict Studies | MD | MA in War & Peace | Founder of Urgence Sahel| Sahel, Sahara specialist | Security Advisory, and Inter-Ethnic Dialogue | Tamasheq Linguist Translator AI Trainer
Kent, Ohio, United StatesRecently started
Evsen Turkay Pillai23y exp
I am a PhD Economist. I specialize in Microeconomics, Game Theory, Industrial Organization and Law and Economics. In addition to teaching at college level, I am interested in AI training.
Schenectady, New York, United States· 1y at co.
Beteley T. Meshesha16y exp
PhD Chemical & Environmental Engineering | Water & Wastewater | Process Engineering | Laboratory & Research Expert
Purcellville, Virginia, United StatesRecently started
Nate Koser15y exp
PhD, Linguistics | Conversational AI
New York City Metropolitan Area· 4y at co.
Defne Louise Jones28y exp
Political Scientist PhD, AI Industry
Bloomington, Indiana, United StatesRecently started
Daryl Stevenson6y exp
I/O Practitioner, Ph.D. | Senior Human Capital Consultant | Part-Time Instructor @ WCC | People Analytics & Executive Coaching
Canton, Michigan, United StatesRecently started
William Peyton Solley3y exp
Aerospace Engineering PhD Candidate
Brentwood, Tennessee, United States· 2y at co.Likely open
Naoko Little-Jackson11y exp
Ph.D. Candidate at Howard University College of Medicine | Bioinformatician | Machine Learning Engineer | Precision Medicine
Washington DC-Baltimore Area· 1y at co.
Kazem Ayat8y exp
PhD Student in Physics @ UC Santa Cruz
Berkeley, California, United States· 2y at co.Possibly open
Nicholas Johnson10y exp
Passionate Neuroscientist | PhD in Biomedical Sciences
Freelance Scientific Writer and Editor
Proficient with big data and statistical data analysis
New York, New York, United States· 1y at co.
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