Nyx in front of the Golden Gate Bridge

Nyx Iskandar

🐻 EECS + Public Policy @ UC Berkeley

🤖 AI/ML Research @

CHAI

+

BAIR

#about

I'm a GovTech Singapore Smart Nation Scholar studying Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) and Public Policy at UC Berkeley who is passionate about building AI for public good. As such, my research interests are interdisciplinary, ranging from investigating and improving the fundamental intelligence of AI systems, to contributing to AI governance and public policy from a technical standpoint. I'm also particularly interested in the intersection of AI and education, currently developing a project on textbook personalization. Recognizing the importance of safe and responsible AI, I'm also currently working on an LLM safety testing and benchmarking project.

Outside of tech, I love to play volleyball, climb/boulder, and draw manga!

#research

Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI)

: action abstractions for black-box planning agents (advised by Dr Cameron Allen, Stuart Russell Group)

Jun 2024 - Now

Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR)

: data-centric AI governance (advised by Ritwik Gupta, Trevor Darrell Group)

Sep 2024 - Now

[Independent Research] AI for Education

: textbook personalization (advised by Prof Gireeja Ranade and Prof Narges Norouzi)

Sep 2024 - Now

[Independent Research] Manga Layout Analysis

: deep learning computer vision pipeline (instance segmentation and OCR) for semantic and structural analysis of manga

Apr 2021 - Dec 2022

#exp

Government Technology Agency (GovTech) Singapore

AI Engineer / Researcher (Responsible AI Team)

Sep 2024 - Now

Machine Learning at Berkeley

ML Engineer & External Relations Officer (soon Spring 2025 VP of External)

Sep 2023 - Now

Associated Students of the University of California, Office of the CTO

Product Owner & Lead Software Engineer

Jan 2024 - May 2024

Government Technology Agency (GovTech) Singapore

Full Stack Software Engineering Intern

Apr 2023 - Jul 2023

#connect

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