Sunishchal Dev (Dev)

Sunishchal Dev is an AI safety researcher working pre deployment testing with a focus on biosecurity at the U.S. AI Safety Institute within NIST’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI). Previously, he was an AI Evaluations Research Scientist at RAND, where he led machine learning engineering efforts focused on evaluating frontier AI systems, including building biological capability benchmarks, assessing risks from open-weight models, and developing methods to make LLM-based evaluations more reliable. He was a fellow during MATS 6.0 under the mentorship of Marius Hobbhahn. Before moving into AI safety, Dev spent nearly a decade as a data scientist, machine learning engineer, and management consultant.