Sunishchal Dev

This stream will focus on evaluation science, CBRN capability benchmarks, and automated red-teaming.

Stream overview

Science of evaluations, creating novel benchmarks for threat model relevant capabilities (i.e. CBRN), automated redteaming frameworks for CBRN threat assessment

Mentors

Sunishchal Dev (Dev)
Center for AI Standards and Innovation
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Lead Research Engineer
Washington, D.C.
Biosecurity
Capability and Propensity Evaluations

Sunishchal Dev is an AI evaluations research scientist focused on assessing biological and chemical risks from frontier AI models. Previously, Dev worked in data science and management consulting on enterprise AI and climate solutions.

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Streams

The Winter 2026 cohort offers a wide range of research streams led by experts across AI alignment, interpretability, governance, and safety. Each stream provides its own research agenda, methodology, and mentorship focus.

SF Bay Area
Dangerous Capability Evals
Boston
Policy and Governance
Adversarial Robustness, Policy & Governance, Red-Teaming, Safeguards
New York City
Control, Scalable Oversight, Red-Teaming, Model Organisms, Monitoring
SF Bay Area
Policy and Governance
Policy & Governance
SF Bay Area
Control, Monitoring, Dangerous Capability Evals
SF Bay Area
Security, Compute Infrastructure
London
Theory
Interpretability
London
Scheming & Deception, Dangerous Capability Evals, Control, Red-Teaming
SF Bay Area
Dangerous Capability Evals, Red-Teaming, Model Organisms, Control, Monitoring
Toronto
Interpretability
London
Control, Monitoring, Safeguards, Dangerous Capability Evals, Scheming & Deception
Chicago
Biorisk, Security, Safeguards
SF Bay Area
Interpretability, Agent Foundations
London
Empirical
Interpretability
London
Interpretability, Red-Teaming, Monitoring
London
Monitoring, Adversarial Robustness, Control, Model Organisms, Red-Teaming, Dangerous Capability Evals, Safeguards
New York City
Policy and Governance
Dangerous Capability Evals, Control, Strategy & Forecasting, Policy & Governance, Scalable Oversight, Agent Foundations
SF Bay Area
Empirical
Theory
Dangerous Capability Evals, Adversarial Robustness, Security, Red-Teaming, Scalable Oversight
London
Control, Scheming & Deception, Dangerous Capability Evals, Monitoring
Washington, D.C.
Policy and Governance
Policy & Governance, Strategy & Forecasting