Megan Kinniment

Member of Technical Staff at Alignment Research Center
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Berkeley, California, United States, US

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Experience

    • Research
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Member of Technical Staff
      • Mar 2023 - Present

      Berkeley, California, United States https://evals.alignment.org/

    • United Kingdom
    • Research Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Visiting Research Fellow
      • Feb 2022 - Mar 2023

      London, England, United Kingdom Did Machine Learning Safety Scholars program alongside other learning, as well as occasional post writing.

    • Summer Research Fellow
      • Aug 2021 - Nov 2021

      Game theory, mathematica, modelling conflict. Explored a model of conflict with game theory. Learnt Mathematica to help with modelling. Independently came up with a framework for categorising certain types of agents based on the compatibility of their goals with other agents.

    • United Kingdom
    • Research
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Research Assistant
      • Apr 2021 - Jul 2021

      Worked on a project with Ben Snodin investigating how academic fields emerge out of obscurity and grow into self-sustaining fields. Reviewed relevant literature and conducted case studies into the historical development of a few select fields.

    • Research Assistant
      • Dec 2020 - Mar 2021

      Assisted on a project investigating ways in which malevolent actors could increase the likelihood of poor AI outcomes. Mostly detangling psychology literature.

    • Summer Research Fellow
      • Jul 2020 - Aug 2020

      Oxford, England, United Kingdom Investigated what factors affect how different beings are perceived morally. Conducted a literature review on the intersection between a few different research areas (moral psychology, person-based theories of prejudice, secondary transfer effects).

    • Civic and Social Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Research Volunteer
      • May 2020 - Jul 2020

      During my Master's I helped work on a paper investigating potential use cases for human challenge trials in COVID-19 vaccine development. Paper was published in Clinical Infectious Diseases (DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa935)

    • United Kingdom
    • Mental Health Care
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Summer Research Intern
      • Jul 2019 - Sep 2019

      Oxford, England, United Kingdom Used Python for data analysis and learnt JavaScript from scratch to make a web-based data visualisation tool for easily viewing selections of collected data.

Education

  • University of Oxford
    Master's degree, Physics
    2016 - 2020

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