Iftekhar Uddin

Iftekhar is a Research Manager at MATS, where he helps scholars navigate bottlenecks, develop grant proposals, and advance their research goals. A physician by training, he spent four years at Johns Hopkins conducting cardiology research focused on heart disease epidemiology and statistics (H-index: 23). Prior to joining MATS, Iftekhar worked on vision-language models and as a robotics engineer specializing in industrial cobots. Committed to advancing AI safety, his interests span diverse research directions, including evaluations, oversight, and other approaches to ensure the responsible development of AI systems.