Israel Mason-Williams
PhD Researcher in Safe and Trusted AI
He has published research at world class AI conferences 1x ICLR, 2x NeurIPS and 4x ICML.
He currently works as a PhD student in the nascent field of mechanistic interpretability to understand and control AI, his work draws inspiration from many fields to develop beautiful yet effective solutions to some of the biggest problems in AI. Israel is also highly involved in the emerging regulatory and policy landscape of AI representing the UK as a Talos Fellow for the EU and recently has begun exploring how to maximise his research impact via startup streams with the incredible support from the visionaries at 50Y and ConceptionX.
Life Updates:
Paper accepted at the first Workshop on Technical AI Governance at ICML exploring the role of Reproducibility and AI Governance.
Attended the Oxford AI Gala supported by Athropic.
Completed the Talos AI Governance Fellowship.
Joined cohort 8 of ConceptionX.
Joined the first UK cohort of 50 Years (50Y).
Attended NeurIPS 2024 and presented work on understanding knowledge distillation and geometric properties of neural networks.
Awarded the Simms Prize for Eductaional Achievement from Lucy Cavendish College at The University of Cambridge.
Joined UKRI Safe and Trusted AI CDT as a PhD Student.
Attended ICLR 2024 and presented work on understanding neural network compression.
Joined the University of Cambridge to study an M.Phil. in Advanced Computer Science.
Graduated from Queen Mary University of London with First Class Honours in Computer Science.
Joined the Eurpean Bioinformatics Institute to research protein function prediction with ML/AI.