Kaelan Yim

Hello!
I am a Cambridge MARS scholar evaluating the capabilities of frontier models in independently conducting research, focusing on reward hacking mitigation and enforcing knowledge cutoffs.
I am interested in autonomous robotics, AI alignment, beans, and long-term sustainability.
I previously trained reinforcement learning models for defense at a Department of Energy lab, built hierarchical ontologies with Apart Research, and developed software for Salesforce, Accenture, and Oracle. Before that, I designed PCBs onboard the current world record low-space atmospheric bacteria probe and built a distributed computing network from scratch.
I am studying computer science (EECS) at Berkeley with a minor in gender & women's studies.
I enjoy gardening my small personal collection of pineapples. My wide range of hobbies include spelunking, leatherworking, glassblowing, crochet, shojin ryori, axe throwing, autocross racing, piano, movies, long-exposure photography, precision platformers, and penny press machines.
I was TIME Person of the Year 2006.

Feel free to reach out.
kaelan [ta] berkeley [tod] edu