
I am a Research Lead at OpenAI working on advancing the frontier of large language models. I earned my PhD in Computer Science from MIT under the supervision of Aleksander Madry, focusing on building the foundations of robust and reliable machine learning systems to enable their safe and responsible real-world deployment.
Prior to MIT, I spent two years at Microsoft Research—first as an AI Resident, then as a Research Engineer—working on robustness in deep learning. Earlier, I was an intern at Uber ATG working on autonomous driving.
I hold an M.S. in Robotics from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and a dual degree in Mathematics (B.S.) and Mechanical Engineering (B.E.) from the American University of Beirut.
2021 - 2023
2016 - 2018
2012 - 2016
June 2023 - Present
LLMs + Reasoning
Sep 2018 - Jan 2021
Research on safety, security, and robustness in deep learning
May - Aug 2018
Worked with the prediction team on machine learning and uncertainty modeling for autonomous driving
Aug 2016 - May 2018
Research on ML+Robotics at The Robotics Institute of CMU with Professors Howie Choset and Matthew Travers
Summer 2015
Interned in the Biorobotics laboratory at CMU with Howie Choset as part of the Robotics Institute Summer Scholar (RISS) program
Dec 2014 - Jun 2016
Worked in the Vision and Robotics Laboratory