Alice Schoenauer Sebag, PhD
AI Safety at Cohere | ex-Twitter, ex-IGF
About
I’m currently a Staff Member of Technical Staff on the AI Safety team at Cohere, and a founding member of the team. I focus on quantifying and mitigating risks of harms from LLM deployment.
More generally, I’m an applied ML expert with over 13 years of experience in multi-disciplinary environments. I work with experts to solve important global problems.
Background
My career spans academia, government, startups, and big tech:
- AI Safety at Cohere (2023-present): Working on deploying safe LLMs
- Twitter (2021-2023): Shipped deep NLP models for content moderation and user safety
- French Ministry for the Economy and Finance (2019-2021): Founded and led the data science practice for public policy evaluation
- UCSF (2016-2018): Post-doctoral research on deep multi-domain learning for drug discovery
- Shift Technology (2015-2016): Built AI systems for insurance fraud detection
Education
- PhD in Bioinformatics, Mines ParisTech (2015)
- LLM in Food and Health Safety Law, Paris Sorbonne University (2012)
- Diploma, Ecole Polytechnique (2011) - Outstanding Leadership Award
Contact
You can reach out at contact-alice-s (at) pm.me, or connect with me on LinkedIn.