Omar Khursheed

Research fellow at MATS

I study the behavior and alignment of large language models by training model organisms that demonstrate various forms of misalignment and developing training and inference-time mitigations.

I grew up in Saudi Arabia and studied computer engineering at Aligarh Muslim University in India. I completed an MS in computer science at UMass Amherst, where I worked with Mohit Iyyer and Brendan O'Connor on gender bias in narrative tropes.

From 2021 to 2025, I was an Applied Scientist on Amazon's Alexa Edge AI team, working on wakeword detection and device-directedness. During the first half of 2026, I was an Anthropic AI Safety Fellow, working with Fabien Roger on the alignment properties of helpful-only models.

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