About Me

My name is Nyx Iskandar, and I'm an undergraduate AI and Policy researcher passionate about building and shaping AI for public good. I'm honored to have been awarded the prestigious full-ride GovTech Singapore Smart Nation Scholarship to study Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

I'm an active undergraduate researcher at the Berkeley AI Research lab (BAIR) with both the Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI) and Darrell Group. At CHAI, I study the foundations of intelligence through AI agents under the mentorship of Dr. Cam Allen. At Darrell Group under the mentorship of Ritwik Gupta, I evaluate the cyber capabilities of LLMs to inform AI governance and public policy, and build vision models finetuned on chaotic environments for disaster response. Additionally with Prof. Gireeja Ranade, I lead the creation of a game theoretic model for AI tutor-student interactions to ensure alignment.

Interested in teaching, I was the teaching assistant (TA) for UC Berkeley's AI and Public Policy course taught by Prof. Andrew W. Reddie (~100 students) in Spring 2025. My other notable teaching experience include being the founder and lead mentor of Code for Hope, where I taught Python fundamentals to 200 underprivileged students and led 25 teacher volunteers from all over Singapore.

Active in the UC Berkeley student body, I currently serve as the Vice President of External Affairs at Machine Learning at Berkeley, the premier organization for Berkeley students in AI/ML, where I spearhead events (e.g. talks, hackathons, workshops, career fairs, company visits) with leading figures and companies / organizations in the AI/ML space. I'm also a member of Tau Beta Pi (TBP) and Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), the Engineering and EECS Honors Societies respectively.

This summer, I'm super excited to be building Aura with Ramen VR.

Outside of tech, I love to play volleyball, climb/boulder, and draw manga! I'm also a big history buff who is currently obsessed with Revolutionary & Early American history