Gopal Sarma

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Gopal Sarma is a researcher in critical and emerging technologies at RAND, where he focuses on technical foundations for governing advanced AI systems, cybersecurity and biosecurity countermeasures, and the convergence of life sciences and artificial intelligence. He holds an AB in mathematics from Harvard University, a PhD in applied physics from Stanford University, and an MD from Emory University School of Medicine. He previously served as Assistant Director for Artificial Intelligence and Biosecurity at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he led policy development at the intersection of AI and national security, and before that as a Program Manager at DARPA's Biological Technologies Office overseeing research in bioelectronics, human performance, and biosecurity. Earlier in his career he was a full-time scientific advisor on the leadership team of the Models, Inference, and Algorithms Initiative at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and also worked as a software engineer at Wolfram Research and as a Senior Contributor to the OpenWorm Foundation. His connection to AI safety work includes organizing the Formal Methods for the Informal Engineer (FMIE) workshop at the Broad Institute in 2021, supported by a grant from the Long-Term Future Fund, which explored formal verification and verified software techniques as tools for safety-critical software in biomedicine and AI.

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