Welcome!

My name is Rylan Schaeffer. I am currently an AI/ML Computer Science PhD student at Stanford in Professor Sanmi Koyejo’s STAIR lab researching the engineering, science and mathematics of intelligence. I am supported by a Stanford Data Science PhD Scholarship.

I have previously been:

• a Research Science Intern on Google Gemini Post-Training
• a Research Science Intern on Meta GenAI’s Llama Evals
• a Research Associate in MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences
• a Research Engineering Intern at Google DeepMind
• a Computer Science Master’s student at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
• a Data Scientist at Uber

and more before that.

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