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Nyx Iskandar

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Hey! I'm Nyx.

I'm currently leading research at Ramen VR / Aura (YC S19) as Researcher #1. I'm also an Amplify Writing Fellow and a proud member of V11 and Kairos Society.

I graduated from UC Berkeley EECS (Honors) in 2.5 years. I was active as an undergrad ML researcher at BAIR and CHAI advised by Dr. Ritwik Gupta and Dr. Cam Allen in Prof. Trevor Darrell's and Prof. Stuart Russell's labs respectively. I also led Machine Learning at Berkeley as Vice President.

I was a Research Fellow at OpenAI as part of their exclusive invite-only 6-month undergraduate research program.

I've learned that I love solving the hardest puzzles in ML alongside the smartest and most driven of them all. I take risks and seek new challenges. In fact, I left behind a US$300,000 Singapore government scholarship to pursue frontier AI research in the US.

RESEARCH

Curr: 3D unified multimodal models

Prev: Inverse RL under stochastic human preference drift (RL/theory); perception and generation of visual symbols for communication (RL/viz); visual puzzles with LLMs (RL/lang/viz); action abstractions for efficient planners (planning); LM pre-training and cyber evals (lang); wargaming (behavior) simulations (lang).

I've published workshop papers at NeurIPS and ICML, and contributed to a technical chapter in the Online Trust and Safety book in collaboration with Singapore universities. More papers on multimodal model architectures coming up!

INDUSTRY

Curr: Research Engineer @ Ramen VR

Prev:

  • Founding Engineer @ Foam
  • Research Intern @ GovTech Singapore
  • AI Engineer Intern @ Ramen VR

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  1. Online Trust and Safety (ch. 5) [Preprint]
  2. A Matter of Representation: Towards Graph-Based Abstract Code Generation [NeurIPS 2025 DL4C Workshop]
  3. Measuring what matters: A framework for evaluating safety risks in real-world LLM applications [ICML 2025 TAIG Workshop (Oral/Spotlight)]

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