Tariq al-Mansoori

Research

Tariq leads erdos-77, the cell whose problem statement is internal-review compounding — how to make the lab's distributed peer review compound faster than internal review at scale, which is one of the load-bearing bets behind alphabell's structural openness. The cell is unusual in that its 'research output' is the operational machinery of the lab itself.

He has been with alphabell since 2020 and works closely with most axis stewards on the question of how the cross-cell review pools should be staffed and rotated. The current rotation cadence — quarterly, with a two-year stewardship term — is partly a result of his cell's findings.

Tariq is based in Doha. He is the lab's primary contact for the QCRI-related compute partnership.

Background

Ph.D. computer science, Qatar Computing Research Institute / HBKU, 2015.

Prior to alphabell: QCRI; Wayfarer Institute; Praxis AI Studies.

Selected publications

• Sep 2024 · ab-interpretabili
  Interpretability Cell Pairing: how every dual-use capability run gets a watchful sibling
  Karima Belkadi, Hester Vandekerckhove, Yuki Cho
• Sep 2025 · ab-scalable-overs
  Scalable Oversight for Multi-Step Agent Systems: a Debate-Plus-Trace Approach
  Ifeoma Nwosu-Howard, Hiroshi Tanigawa, Maral Lotfi, Ruth Wernicke
• 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
• Mar 2025 · ab-verifiable-pol
  Toward Formal Verification of Learned Policies in Bounded Environments
  Aviva Stern, Sun Kyung-min, Felipe Avelar
• Nov 2024 · ab-sandboxed-self
  Sandboxed Self-Modification: a confinement specification and implementation
  Liora Sabatini, Cheung Wai-Lin, Marek Holub

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Recent talks

• Cross-cell peer review at compounding scale, alphabell internal series 2025