About Me

Hi, I’m JJ.

Originally from London, England, I graduated with Honors in Cognitive Science and Math from Swarthmore College, PA.

I’m a member of technical staff at the Nightingale Collective. Previously I was a MIRI Fellow on the Technical Governance Team. My research interests are focused on the areas of NLP, Multi Agent Safety, Machine Learning Theory, AI Safety, and Neural Net Compression.

In the past I was an early employee at cohere on the Generative Models and Fine-tuning Teams at Cohere and Co-founded Swarthmore Effective Altruism. It is now one of the largest EA Student Groups and has a full-time funded staff member.

What I am currently working on can be found here:
I love to talk to new people, if you want to talk to me feel free to message me: hi@{this website}

In my free time, I regularly make and Listen to music under the name JJ Balisan. I play many instruments, but mainly the piano, Bass, and Percussion. I am also an active marathon runner and Coach with Vegan Runners UK.

I am an Alumni of the Sutton Trust/ Fullbright US program and still regularly volunteer with the program. I believe very strongly in the principles of Effective Altruism and have taken the Pledge to Give 10% of my lifetime earnings to charity.

In my Sophomore Year of College, I helped lead a campaign against Sexual assault on college campuses that got international Press attention. Since I have confidentially advised other campaigns. While I currently don’t work on the issue, I am always willing to advise people working on sexual violence campaigns.