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Aravind Periyasamy

Long-tenured contributor

Based in Madurai
Node-cell godel-02
ORCID 0000-9906-7381-7218

Research

Aravind is one of the three contributors who developed the modification-under-review protocol that governs every recursive-self-improvement run at alphabell. His specific contributions centre on the pre-registration machinery — how candidate stopping conditions are formulated, how they are agreed on before a run begins, and how the run is structured so the conditions can actually halt it.

He has been a paired interpretability lead on two RSI run halts. He is one of the lab's clearer writers on the question of what a stopping condition has to do — there is a long-form internal note of his that newer RSI-cell contributors are asked to read before joining a run.

Aravind is based in Madurai. He is on the cross-axis methodology review pool and has been one of the longest-serving members of that pool.

Background

Ph.D. computer science, Madurai Kamaraj University, 2015.

Prior to alphabell: Madurai Kamaraj University; Helios Safety Group; Cantor Initiative.

Selected publications

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Recent talks

  • Pre-registered stopping conditions in practice, ML Safety Workshop 2025
  • What a halt does to a cell, EA Global Boston 2024
Working with

Aravind is currently part of node-cell godel-02, working under the Recursive self-improvement research axis. The cell is open to substantive correspondence from researchers working on adjacent problems; route requests through godel-02@alphabell.com or directly to Aravind at aravind-periyasamy@alphabell.com.