AI Data Scientist building safety infrastructure for AI-assisted workflows.
What I work on:
- Evaluation pipelines for frontier model behaviour (Inspect AI, multi-turn, cross-condition)
- Cross-model verification — different model families catching what same-family review misses
- Agentic safeguards — permission architectures, deterministic scripts, and hook systems that constrain AI agent behaviour
- Mechanistic interpretability (circuit tracing, sparse autoencoders)
Writing: panolof.substack.com
BEng Electronic Engineering (Cum Laude), University of Pretoria. Python, TypeScript, SQL.