People
Running the month
Who to ask
| Denisa Pop denisa2324 | Community and health, and the socials Book a 20 minute 1:1, or message on Discord |
| Leonard Bereska leonardbereska | Schedule, teachers, materials, the feedback form and the daily quiz. Socials, with Denisa |
| Leon Lang leon.lang | Curriculum and the prerequisites document |
| Aron Mill dreyn4133 | Payments, reimbursements and travel allowances; LISA keycards and building access; the questions that arrive by email |
| Lee Wright lee.wright | Venue and space, with Aron |
All of us are in #intensive-september. Anything you would rather not put in a channel goes to Leonard, or through anonymous feedback.
Teaching this month
Teachers and TAs
Reach out to them on Discord if you want to talk about their module or their research. They are here because they want to have those conversations.
Aden Power
Leads AI Alignment Introduction, Alignment in Practice and Agent Foundations; Australian National University; Iliad fellow (earlier cohort)
Ashe Vazquez Nuñez
Leads Agent Foundations
David Quarel
Leads Solomonoff Induction and AIXI; Australian National University
Fernando Rosas
Leads World Models, Decision Theory to RL; University of Sussex
Guillaume Corlouer
Leads Training Dynamics; Moirai
Julian Schulz
Leads ML Engineering, Mechanistic Interpretability; Meridian Research
Kai Ogden
Leads Singular Learning Theory; University of Oxford
Louis Jaburi
Leads Data Attribution; EleutherAI
Satya Benson
Leads Abstractions and Latents; Williams College
Stephan Wäldchen
Leads Debate, Steganography and Backdoors; Iliad staff
Tudor Dimofte
Leads Physics for Deep Learning; Iliad fellow (earlier cohort)
Xavier Poncini
Leads Computational Mechanics; Simplex
Adam Newgas
Seconds ML Engineering; Timaeus
David Prinz
TA on Steganography and Backdoors
Guillermo Sanmarco
Seconds Computational Mechanics; University of Washington; Fall 2026 Iliad fellow
Leonardo Costa Lesage
TA on Decision Theory → RL and Solomonoff Induction + AIXI
Margot Stakenborg
Seconds Physics for Deep Learning, World Models; Iliad fellow (earlier cohort)
Matthew Farrugia-Roberts
Seconds Singular Learning Theory; University of Oxford
Simon Elias Schrader
Seconds Debate; University of Oslo; Fall 2026 Iliad fellow
Yangda Bei
Seconds Training Dynamics; Iliad fellow (earlier cohort)
Zach Furman
Seconds Launch Day + proposal round 2; The University of Melbourne