Pinar Ozisik
Research Scientist
Algorithmic Alignment Group
MIT CSAIL Contact:
a.pinar.ozisik@gmail.com
About
I am a research scientist in the Algorithmic Alignment Group at MIT CSAIL, working with Prof. Dylan Hadfield-Menell. I am broadly interested in ensuring that algorithms and systems behave correctly, safely, and in line with their intended purpose in the real world. Before joining CSAIL, I was a visiting researcher in the Camera Culture group, working with Prof. Ramesh Raskar at the MIT Media Lab.I am also on the lookout for positions in industry or academia. Please feel free to email me if you think I'd be a good fit for your group. Here is my CV and research statement.
I received my Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I was working with Prof. Brian Levine in the Cryptoeconomics Lab and collaborating with Prof. Philip Thomas in the Autonomous Learning Lab. My thesis focused on the analysis and application of concentration inequalities to preserve the desirable properties of systems. More specifically, I worked on a protocol that used tail inequalities to improve the network performance of blockchain systems; and I analyzed the susceptibility of a class of reinforcement learning algorithms that leveraged tail inequalities to data poisoning attacks.