Shawnak Shivakumar
Co-Founder & CEO @ Superaligned
I work on AI alignment, developing evaluations and post-training environments for frontier language models. My past research spans designing world models for molecular biology at Stanford, Stony Brook, and Harvard, focusing on creating scientific RL environments and benchmarking AI systems. Currently super interested in two distinct moonshot frontiers: solving longevity and superintelligence. Studied CS/AI @ Stanford.
Recognition
- Jane Street ML Summit – Honoree
- Emergent Ventures – FellowBacked by Tyler Cowen, Thiel Foundation, and Schmidt Futures.
- Z Fellows – Fellow
- Regeneron Science Talent Search – Scholar
- Parliamentary Debate – National Champion
- Chess – FIDE Master & National MasterPeak rating 2431; former u15 world chess champ