Tobin South

Tobin is a researcher at MIT and Stanford, focused on building more robust societal and digital infrastructure for the AI age, with work across privacy, human-centered control, verifiability, and regulatory compliance for AI. Tobin's PhD at MIT was advised by Sandy Pentland at the MIT Media Lab and was fully funded by a Fulbright Future Scholarship. Tobin has a broad research background ranging from confidential and verifiable AI tooling to regulatory contributions to privacy in the future of AI.

Research I Want to Mentor

Area: Building better digital infrastructure to create a safe and effective rollout of AI across the economy

• Tools for understanding delegation risks and harm mitigation tools for autonomous AI agents.
• Confidentiality, privacy, or verifiability infrastructure for AI and agent deployments.
• Tools for concrete and reliable (and verifiable) supply chain management for AI and data.
• Other infrastructure and governance tools for AI.

What I'm Looking for in a Mentee

Someone who is willing to explore new ideas and collaborate diversely. Mentee will likely have a chance to have a physical presence at Stanford or MIT, and meet with a range of collaborators.