Physics MSci graduate and currently employed Full Stack Developer transitioning into AI Safety research.

While I’ve only been actively investigating Technical AI Safety research for the last 6 months:

I’ve completed an extremely competitive compressed ARENA bootcamp (ARBOx)

Achieved 1st in a recent Apart Research hackathon for forecasting

which I have achieved by quickly iterating on understanding and my experiments.

I want to apply my product software engineering knowledge to LLM internals and reduce AI risk.

Bluedot AGI Strategy| Nov 2025 - Dec 2025| bluedot.org

learnt about possible threat models and AGI forecasts, drivers

investigated critically the assumptions of threat models and how to prevent them

learnt about defense layers and investigating in strengthening critical infrastructure

created action plan to aid the great refractor; assisted translation memory unsafe programs from C and C++ into Rust.

Apart Research Hackathons

AI Incidents Forecasting| 30 Oct 2025 - 2 Nov 2025| apartresearch.com

Collaborated quickly with new connections to build project

Implemented and calibrated advanced statistical models; Poisson Regression, Monte Carlo Simulations

Coordinated to write empirically dense research paper

Won 1st place out of 300+ sign ups and 35+ submissions; rewarded cash prize of $1000 to aid further research

Defensive Acceleration Hackathon| 20 Nov 2025 - 23 Nov 2025| apartresearch.com

Collaborated quickly with new connections to build project

Extended frontier research to detect misalignment by agents in coding tasks

Understood and refactored mathematically dense models

Built agent evaluation framework for OpenAI, Hugging Face and Ollama models

Palisade Research - Misalignment Bounty| 20 Aug 2025 - 8 Sep 2025| arxiv.org

Designing scenarios to invoke misalignment in OpenAI’s o3 model

Created isolated environment and an fake python package for agent to interact with

Used OpenAI api, custom agent frameworks and Docker.

Successfully implicated misaligned behaviour in o3, showing reward hacking when mentioning stakeholders

UoN AI Safety Society| Oct 2025 - Present| instagram.com

Committee member of AI Safety Initiative at University of Nottingham

Attending weekly socials and giving talks on AI Safety

Facilitating engaging and thoughtful debates, creating action steps

Logit Lens| Aug 2025 - Nov 2025| chamodkalupahana.github.io

Conducted short independent mechanistic-interpretability project using a logit lens on GPT-2

Investigated internal biases of small models, manipulating logits

Public write-up aimed at rebuilding my research muscles and explaining the results accessibly.

ARBOx| 4 Jan 2026 - 16 Jan 2026| oaisi.org

Currently doing 2 week intensive course on compressed ARENA curriculum in Oxford

Low level Pytorch coding, Weights and Biases.

Learn about distributed training on gpu clusters

Coding GPT-2 from scratch, learning about transformer architecture

Readings

Actively researching and investigating research papers and Lesswrong posts on Rationality, Mechanistic interpretability, Agent Foundations, Simulator Theory

Blog Posts| medium.com

url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chamod-kalupahana/

Continuously writing and publishing blogs on LinkedIn and Medium

Actively engaging my skills to represent information and concepts clearly for the general public

Raising awareness for AI safety

AI Safety Camp - Groundless AI - Autostructures| Jan 2026 - April 2026| groundless.ai

Currently learning and implementing live theory to improve human to human connections using AI

Rationality, interface design

Full-time Job| International Celebrity Networks| Full-Time| Nottingham, England, United Kingdom| August 2024 - Present| icn-media.com

Coordinating with coworkers

Client management

Responsive to critical problems

Working overtime for critical deadlines

Working with and directing interns in pair programming

The Class Plan| August 2024 - Dec 2025| theclassplan.com

Tech Stack & Delivery: Built native iOS/Android frontends with a Java backend using bespoke databases.

Rapid upskilling under pressure: Took ownership of stalled project, learnt Swift, Kotlin and Java within weeks of starting project.

Launch & Growth: Reached thousands of users; ongoing usage and popularity growth.

Awards & Coverage: No. 10 best fitness app in Women’s Health 2025. Visit Here.

Ongoing Maintenance: Maintaining app and server architecture, responding to feedback, performing continuous iterative updates to the UI.

Proludic Sport| April 2025 - Present| apps.apple.com

Maintaining muti-platform legacy app written in Objective-C and Java fragments

Started with no documentation or contact with previous developers. Learnt codebase myself

Added extensive documentation and good coding practices

wrote and carried out extensive unit tests

app is live, updated for iOS 26

Delivery Note| April 2025 - Present

Maintaining legacy app written in Objective-C, used for in-house operations by warehouse company

Started with no documentation or contact with previous developers. Learnt codebase myself.

Added extensive documentation and good coding practices

Identified and fixed bugs in CoreData

Goal Modelling| June 2025 - Aug 2025| goal-modelling.com

Designed and built novel python backend for onboarding, distributing content

Serverless architecture in AWS Lambda

Collaborated with coworkers to link up with WordPress

Worked around tight deadlines, iterating prototypes quickly to get feedback from clients, adapting to clients quickly changing needs

Website is live with a growing user base

System Admin

Wordpress maintenance; Fixing low level bugs in Elementor and Woocommerce

Debugging domain and email server issues

Inspected, restored and upgraded old windows computers

Designing and implementing custom backup policies for server, client and company data

Designing and implementing custom uptime checkers and alert system for company servers

ICN Squid| May 2025 - Present| icn-squid.com

Upgrading company analytics tool website

Learnt and used Laravel and php to optimise website speed

Designed and implemented AI for traffic attribution

Full-time Integrated Master's Degree| University of Nottingham| Full-Time| Nottingham, England, United Kingdom| September 2019 - July 2023 (4 years)

Numpy, Matplotlib, Scikit-Learn, Seaborn, OpenCV

Developed skills to learn independently and think critically

Developed and applied strong research rigour skills

Quantum Mechanics, General Relativity

Diffusion Generative AI Development Project| Sep 2022 – Jun 2023| github.com

Python: Completed a master's project with my team to design a diffusion model using TensorFlow on Google Colab for generating realistic simulations of universe evolutions.

Project Management: Undertook this ambitious project within a tight 6-month timeframe, despite having no prior experience in machine learning and limited learning resources.

Data Cleaning: Acquired proficiency in designing and testing model architectures, fine-tuning hyperparameters, and establishing efficient data pipelines using Pandas and Scikit-Learn.

Time Management: Adhered to a rigorously tight timeline and communicated effectively within the team and with our supervisor.

Presentation: Demonstrated dedication, exceeding the project's initial goals, and successfully presenting our results in a viva and an extensive joint report.

Novel Research: Implemented novel PhD-level techniques to generate simulations, surprising my supervisor.

Modern Cosmology| Jan 2023 – Jun 2023

Investigated frontier research in cosmology

Joint Presentation of scientific accurate of theories of candidates for dark matter particles

Quantum Coherent Phenomena| Sep 2022 – Jan 2023

Took one of most advanced quantum mechanics modules available

Highly theoretical maths

Modelled quantum systems in python

Information theory| Sep 2022 – Jan 2023

Joint presentation on mathematically dense topics on probability in front of >50 people

Earned praise for engaging enthusiastic and clear presentations on complex concepts.

Investigated highly theoretical techniques; KL Divergence, Huffman encoding

OPAD Face Scanner| Oct 2020 – May 2021

Teamwork: Volunteered as a team to design a program to scan the faces of children in hospitals.

Investigated computer vision using java and openCV

Satellite Weather Monitoring in South Africa| Jan 2022 – Jun 2022| github.com

Utilised Meteostat-11 satellite data for crop growth detection in South Africa.

Focused on building a robust and reliable python program for data analysis.

Applied the scientific method to process and interpret gathered data.

Fake Image Detector| 16 Oct 2022 - 30 Oct 2022| github.com

Developed a tamper-detection program within a 2-week timeframe.

Used Fourier analysis on images

Built the program from scratch to analyse images for potential tampering.

Demonstrated effective time management and efficiency in program development

Cham-GPT| Feb 2024 - Present| chamgpt.net

Shipped an end-to-end personal LLM on a single laptop.

Built in TensorFlow from scratch and first principles

From consented data collection to training to a working demo, built to mimic my messaging style under tight compute limits.

Despite the lack of resources, I optimised the training and pre-processing and got the model to output coherent sentences

Working to launch fill online production version in late 2026.

Frontend site built in Angular

Compare Astronomical Objects| August 2025 - Present| compare-astronomical-objects.web.app

Designed an interface for understanding the scale of stars, planets and more in our universe

This was for my own self development and to share what I enjoy about learning about cosmology and space

Measuring things in numbers and x times bigger doesn’t do it justice. A really good way to understand the scale of objects in space to imagine yourself, seeing how massive it would be if it would be at the distance of our Sun or Moon.

It’s still a early work in progress but I plan on improving it to ensure people can more easily comprehend how small we truly are in our universe.

Built in Next.js

How Big?| Dec 2024 - Present

Joint project with local Nottingham artist https://xinchen.super.site/

Native iOS app using SwiftUI and SceneKit

Educating users about scale of everyday objects

Abstract UI design

2025 Artwork App| August 2025 - Present

Joint project with local Nottingham artist https://xinchen.super.site/

Cross platform iOS and Android using Flutter

Educating users about attachment and time

Aiming to be deployed at a gallery

Shopify Site for Jewellery| Nov 2025 - Present| emerald-gem-gold-and-sliver-smith.myshopify.com

Managing Shopify site for family business.

Website for Local Family Hotel Business| Dec 2025 - Present| greenvillayala.com

Creating and managing website for local hotel family business

PicoCTF challenges| April 2025 - Present

Learning about Web Exploitation and Cryptography techniques

improving my knowledge and my own security against attacks

SEN Teaching Assistant| Teaching Personnel| Full-Time| Nottingham, England, United Kingdom| Mar 2024 - Aug 2024

Individual Support: Working 1-to-1 with SEN children aged 5 to 19, finding creative solutions to meet diverse student needs and build trust.

Online Tutor| The Online School| Part-Time| Remote, United Kingdom| Mar 2024 - Nov 2024

Teaching GCSE Physics, Chemistry and Maths lectures to more than 25> pupils audiences

Creating engaging lessons to teach difficult concepts

Personal Tutor| Self Employed| Part-Time| Remote, United Kingdom| Feb 2024 - Nov 2024

Teaching GCSE Physics, Chemistry and Maths lectures in 1-on-1 lessons

Helping pupils prepare for GCSE exams, ensuring A and A* grades

A-Level| Liverpool, United Kingdom| Sep 2017 – Jul 2019

School: Liverpool College

Achieved A*, A, and A in Maths, Physics, and Chemistry.

Honoured with Excellence in Physics Award

GSCE| Liverpool, United Kingdom| Sep 2012 – Jul 2017

School: West Derby School

Achieved As and Bs for 8 GCSEs

Completed an extra Computer Science GCSE during after-school hours.

Song-Writing Society

Participated in open mic nights, showcasing my songs.

Contributed to the society's success in touring Edinburgh as part of an orchestra.

Self Taught Guitar

Regularly practicing and writing my own songs