Sunishchal Dev

This stream will focus on evaluation science, CBRN capability benchmarks, and automated red-teaming.

Stream overview

Science of evaluations, creating novel benchmarks for threat model relevant capabilities (i.e. CBRN), automated redteaming frameworks for CBRN threat assessment

Mentors

Sunishchal Dev (Dev)
Center for AI Standards and Innovation
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Lead Research Engineer
Washington, D.C.
Biosecurity
Capability and Propensity Evaluations

Sunishchal Dev is an AI evaluations research scientist focused on assessing biological and chemical risks from frontier AI models. Previously, Dev worked in data science and management consulting on enterprise AI and climate solutions.

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Mentorship style

Fellows we are looking for

Project selection

Streams

The Winter 2026 cohort offers a wide range of research streams led by experts across AI alignment, interpretability, governance, and safety. Each stream provides its own research agenda, methodology, and mentorship focus.

London
Empirical
SF Bay Area
Strategy and Forecasting
SF Bay Area
Systems Security
SF Bay Area
London
Control, Monitoring, Red-Teaming, Scalable Oversight, Scheming & Deception
SF Bay Area
Theory
Agent Foundations
SF Bay Area
Interpretability
SF Bay Area
Interpretability, Monitoring, Dangerous Capability Evals
SF Bay Area
Theory
Interpretability, Model Organisms, Red-Teaming, Safeguards, Scheming & Deception
SF Bay Area
Theory
Interpretability
Grand Rapids
Theory
Agent Foundations
Washington, D.C.
Systems Security
Policy and Governance
Compute Infrastructure, Policy & Governance, Security
London
Theory
Policy and Governance
Dangerous Capability Evals, Compute Infrastructure, Policy & Governance, Strategy & Forecasting
Washington, D.C.
Systems Security
Compute Infrastructure, Security
London
Control, Monitoring
London
Control, Scheming & Deception, Dangerous Capability Evals, Model Organisms, Monitoring
SF Bay Area
Security, Dangerous Capability Evals