Maya Quesada

Research

Maya is a co-author of the counterfactual-rollouts deployment study. Her contributions centre on the production-engineering side of the study — how the confidence-weighted rollouts were actually wired into two cells' production planners, and what the operational engineering effort looked like.

She has been with alphabell since 2020 and is based in Mexico City. She is one of the lab's primary contacts for the Mexican academic community.

Background

Ph.D. computer science, ITAM (Mexico City), 2015.

Prior to alphabell: ITAM; Volterra Cognition; Wayfarer Institute.

Selected publications

• Dec 2024 · ab-counterfactual
  Counterfactual Rollouts for Planning: a 30-day deployment study
  Sasha Petrov, Maya Quesada, Bilal Hossain
• Aug 2025 · ab-compositional-
  Compositional Latent Dynamics for Long-Horizon World Modelling
  Jonas Bremer, Sasha Petrov, Felicity Anjali Sandirasegaram, Tomoko Niwa
• Jul 2025 · ab-embodied-pretr
  Embodied Pretraining via Cell-Operated Simulation: a 70k-environment study
  Lin Hao, Dimitri Yelchaninov, Sera Wijewardene, Ananya Mukherjee
• May 2025 · ab-mechanistic-ci
  Mechanistic Circuit Analysis at Frontier Scale: cells as a unit of interpretability
  Jiang Yifei, Nico Almgren, Karima Belkadi, Hester Vandekerckhove
• Sep 2024 · ab-interpretabili
  Interpretability Cell Pairing: how every dual-use capability run gets a watchful sibling
  Karima Belkadi, Hester Vandekerckhove, Yuki Cho

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Recent talks

• Production deployments of world-model planners, RLDM 2024