Hayder Elesedy

I am an AI Researcher and Engineer.

My interests include reasoning, theoretical aspects of statistical machine learning, LLMs, deep learning and applications of machine learning to science.

During 2023-2024 I worked as a Senior Machine Learning Researcher at Samsung researching LLM safety and differentially private, federated estimation.

I was a DPhil student in machine learning at Oxford, supervised by Varun Kanade and Yee Whye Teh.

I spent August-December 2022 at DeepMind working on U-Clip, supervised by Marcus Hutter.

I spent the second half of 2021 year doing AI research at X (formerly Google [x]) supervised by David Duvenaud.

In 2020 I was part of the Royal Society’s DELVE initiative. This is a multidisciplinary group formed in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Before my PhD I was a quant at Tudor, and before that I studied maths and theoretical physics at Cambridge where I was fortunate to be taught by Stephen Siklos.

I was not a normal Cambridge applicant. Over the years I’ve helped a few others bridge the gap. If you want help, send me an email.

Note: I prefer my Arabic name Hayder, but prior to 2024 I used my Welsh name, Bryn.