Hi, I’m Avery. I design and build unique, illuminating ways to understand AI and agentic behavior.

I’m a researcher collaborating with David Bau’s laboratory, a member of MIT AI Alignment (MAIA), and an incoming CBAI Fellow this summer with Jayson Lynch of MIT FutureTech. I have ongoing frontier AI lab engagements.

Before transitioning to AI research, I spent over 12 years as a software product engineer, with my longest tenure at Pivotal Labs.

Research Interests

I work on understanding how AI systems behave when they are made to do unusual, out-of-distribution things.

This includes settings like social deduction games, human red-teaming, refusal elicitation, and procedurally-invented programming languages.

Check out the research for more!

Other Interests

I’ve been playing classical cello since I was about 7, having previously subbed with the Boston Philharmonic, and continue to play today as part of the Mercury Orchestra and various other groups.

Contact

Feel free to find me on LinkedIn, browse my research, or read recent writing.