Benchmarking & automating mathematics.

ML researcher and mathematician focused on benchmarking and automating advanced mathematical problem-solving.

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Nonprofit · Director benchXiv

For AI benchmarks what arXiv is for preprints — starting with rigorous mathematics benchmarks for language models.

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Nonprofit · Founder
Fields Model Initiative logo Fields Model Initiative

Training LLMs for mathematics that converge to Fields Medal performance. A non-profit initiative.

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Competition · Prize Manager

Managing the AI Mathematical Olympiad competition series with Terence Tao, Tim Gowers, and the AIMO Advisors.

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Roles

AIMO Prize Prize Manager — running the $10-million AIMO competition series on Kaggle (22,000+ participants) with Terence Tao, Tim Gowers & the AIMO Advisors, toward AI that solves Olympiad-level problems.
ICML Invited tutorial on training LLMs for math (2026, 7/118 accepted); area chair, AI4MATH workshop (2025).
Oxford DPhil in Computer Science/ML (2019–2026) under T. Lukasiewicz; affiliated with Tim Gowers' group at Cambridge since 2023.
Upcoming Advising the AIMO Interpretability Challenge (NeurIPS 2026) and AIPhO, the AI Physics Olympiad (2027).

In the media

Nature News — May, Feb., Jan. 2025
Deutscher Bundestag — committee report

Selected talks

Invited tutorial, training LLMs for math — ICML2026
IMO ceremony — AIMO & presenting the winners2025
IHES — LLMs for mathematicians seminar2025
NII, Tokyo — Aizawa seminar2025