Asa Cooper Stickland

Asa Cooper Stickland is a Postdoctoral Researcher at New York University, specializing in evaluating language models for dangerous capabilities, with past experience including a Research Fellowship at Constellation and mentoring roles for the MATS program. Prior to this, Stickland was a Research Fellow at the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative, focusing on situational awareness in language models. Additional research internships were completed at Amazon, NAVER LABS Europe, Facebook, and Five AI INC, where contributions ranged from multilingual NLP robustness to LIDAR processing for autonomous vehicles. Stickland's educational background includes a PhD in Machine Learning/NLP and a Master's in Data Science from the University of Edinburgh, alongside a Master's in Physics from Durham University.