Morgan Sandler

About

I’m a Machine Learning Research Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, a Department of Defense federally funded research and development center, where I work in the Frontier AI Lab building and evaluating AI systems.

I’m also a PhD student in Computer Science at Michigan State University, where I study multimodal conversational systems, advised by Professor Arun Ross.

I’m especially interested in developing technology that’s genuinely useful to people, and I enjoy building machine learning systems inspired by ideas from cognitive science.

Current Work

At SEI's Frontier AI Lab, I work on practical machine learning research problems including:

• Developing and evaluating large-scale AI systems
• Applying insights from cognitive science to improve ML systems
• Uncertainty quantification for AI security and reliability research

Background

I have an M.S. in Computer Science from Michigan State University, where I worked on biometric recognition systems. Before my current role, I spent time at RAND Corporation doing technology policy research — AI policy, biosecurity, autonomous systems, and technology competition. It was a good way to think about the broader implications of the things I now work on directly.