Published several papers, including 'Machine Learning from Human Preferences', 'AI should not be an imitation game: Centaur evaluations', 'Convex Markov Games: A Framework for Creativity, Imitation, Fairness, and Safety in Multiagent Learning', and co-authored an upcoming textbook on Machine Learning from Human Preferences.
Research Experience
Currently a Human-Centered AI Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford’s Economics and Computer Science Departments, advised by Erik Brynjolfsson and Sanmi Koyejo; has worked on competition enforcement for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission; taught high school mathematics and computer science in Germany before his Ph.D.
Education
Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems from MIT in February 2025; Master's degrees in Mathematics (2017) and Economics (2018, with distinction) from the University of Bonn.
Background
His research interests include the elicitation and aggregation of human preferences in machine learning systems, including questions of privacy, competition, and consumer protection. He uses methods from microeconomic theory, structural econometrics, and reinforcement learning in his work.
Miscellany
Committed to education and scholarship; has worked with the Federal Trade Commission on AI alignment issues.