About
My research focuses on assessing whether AI systems might meaningfully lower the barriers to weaponizing biology. My motivation is to reduce the risk of it happening.
I began this work at Pivotal Research as a research fellow mentored by SecureBio. My first project focused on automating the measurement of refusal robustness across providers, using internal evaluations meant to measure chemical and biological risk, like the Virology Capabilities Test. Put another way, when a model won’t answer a hazardous question, how do you get around it?
Currently, I mentor a SPAR project on AI-enabled cyber-bio offense, examining how these overlapping threat vectors could create novel pathways for severe harm. On occasion, I am a facilitator for the AGI Strategy course at BlueDot. Before this I was an mRNA scientist, doing wet-lab R&D. I hold an MSc in Medical Science from Boston University and a BSc in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UMass Amherst.
The best way to understand how I think is to read my writing — here, or on my Substack.
Find me
- Professional: LinkedIn
- Academic: Google Scholar · ORCID 0009-0007-8578-2687
- Code: GitHub: gvmfhy
- Email: via LinkedIn