David Quarel
Bio
David Quarel is a PhD student at the Australian National University (ANU), supervised by Marcus Hutter, where he researches AI safety, Universal Artificial Intelligence, and Mechanistic Interpretability. He holds a BSc in Physics and Mathematics and an MComp specialising in AI and Machine Learning. He co-authored the textbook "An Introduction to Universal Artificial Intelligence" (Routledge, 2024) alongside Marcus Hutter and Elliot Catt. Quarel serves as Head TA at ARENA, an AI safety education programme run by the London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA), where he develops course content and teaches technical AI safety topics. He previously worked as a research assistant at the Krueger AI Safety Lab (KASL) at the University of Cambridge, and received funding to support that residency period. He has several years of teaching experience at ANU across mathematics, theoretical computer science, and digital hardware design.
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- https://davidquarel.github.io/
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- david-quarel
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from Long-Term Future Fund
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- Last Updated
- Mar 22, 2026, 3:33 PM UTC
- Created
- Mar 20, 2026, 2:50 AM UTC