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Meet the mentors, fellows and alumni of Pivotal's fellowships.
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Aniruddh Pramod
MSc Computer Science student at Oxford
- Q3 2026 AIS
Arjun Sharma
Lawyer turned founder pivoting into research
- Q3 2026 AIS
Ben Maltbie
Former software engineer → AI safety
- Q3 2026 AIS
Ben Slater
Cambridge PhD bridging psychology & engineering
- Q3 2026 AIS
Diksha Gupta
Neuroscientist into biological + artificial intelligence
- Q3 2026 AIS
Emaan Bilal Khan
Master's student in Technology Policy at MIT
- Q3 2026 AIS
Ethan Nguyen
Mathematics & CS grad researching interpretability
- Q3 2026 AIS
Guy Galun
Vulnerability researcher turned safety researcher; MSc student at ETH Zürich
- Q3 2026 AIS
Haimi Tefera
PhD researcher in geopolitical trust & security
- Q3 2026 AIS
Ihor Kendiukhov
Bioinformatics & mathematics, AI-for-bio
- Q3 2026 AIS
Kacie Yearout
Former U.S. government policy officer on AI, cyber & tech
- Q3 2026 AIS
Kamal Maher
Biology & AI interpretability researcher
- Q3 2026 AIS
Liha Leung
International relations grad moving into AI safety
- Q3 2026 AIS
Lily Shi
Stanford CS student and AI interpretability researcher
- Q3 2026 AIS
Luis Montoya
Senior data scientist / physicist
- Q3 2026 AIS
Mark Keavney
Psychology PhD researching LLM psychology
- Q3 2026 AIS
Matthew Khoriaty
CS master's grad working on AI control
- Q3 2026 AIS
Rieke Fruengel
Computational neuroscientist moving into mech interp
- Q3 2026 AIS
Ryan Lundqvist
Georgia Tech CS grad, formerly at Meta
- Q3 2026 AIS
Simone Gargiulo
Scientist — atomic & nuclear physics
- Q3 2026 AIS
Sleem Abdelghafar
PhD researcher at Rice University
- Q3 2026 AIS
Soniya Agrawal
Investigative journalist turned AI governance researcher
- Q3 2026 AIS
Thea Xu
PhD candidate in interpretable ML
- Q3 2026 AIS
Tim Farrelly
Startup founder & hackathon organiser turned researcher
- Q3 2026 AIS
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