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Career profile

Mikita Balesni

Working on alignment of frontier AI

San Francisco Bay Area

Career path.

  1. OpenAI

    Member of Technical Staff

    Dec 2025 - Present
  2. Apollo Research

    Research Scientist

    Jul 2023 - Oct 2025
  3. Stanford Existential Risks Initiative

    ML Safety Research Scholar

    Nov 2022 - Jun 2023
  4. University of Tartu

    Autonomous Driving Lab - Visiting ML Researcher

    Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
  5. Improve the News Foundation

    Machine Learning Engineer

    Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
  6. University of Tartu

    Machine Learning Research Assistant

    Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
  7. University of New Brunswick

    Research Intern

    Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
  8. ELIN Software

    JavaScript & ServiceNow Developer

    Jan 2017 - May 2020