Nikhil Kunapuli

Nikhil Kunapuli is an independent researcher and currently Head of Research at Praxis, a company focused on building innovative urban environments, a role he has held since September 2022. He holds a B.S. in Physics from MIT (2014-2018) and an M.S. in Physics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2022). Earlier in his career, he co-founded Luminous Computing, an AI hardware startup, serving as COO from 2018 to 2019, before departing to pursue direct AI safety work. He conducted research at the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) and received a $30,000 Long-Term Future Fund grant in April 2019 for independent AI safety deconfusion research, specifically studying safe exploration and robustness to distributional shift through the lens of biological complex systems and theoretical biology. His approach sought to generate insights applicable to AI safety by examining how natural organisms and ecosystems handle robustness and exploration challenges. He also writes a personal Substack, Inspired Nonsense, covering AI, physics, and philosophy.

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