AI Safety Researcher, LASR Labs (Summer 2026)

Pavan Kumar Dubasi

I work on AI safety evaluations and build trust infrastructure for AI agents

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Founder of VibeTensor. Available from 19 Oct 2026, remote.

At a glance

Research and products

12,000+

Attestix PyPI downloads (all time, pepy.tech, Sep 2026)

Products shipped

BlueDot Impact cohorts

12+

Grant and credit programmes

What I do

Most of what I care about is measurement

AI safety research

Researcher in the LASR Labs Summer 2026 cohort, where our team works on the science of model organisms. Papers on evaluation and on where machine learning actually helps.

Agent identity and trust

Attestix, an open-source identity and attestation layer for AI agents: credentials, delegation and hash-chained audit evidence.

Products and engineering

Founded VibeTensor, a DPIIT-recognised startup, and shipped Attestix, VibeMCP, IssueVista and UpdataMind.

Current work

Research and tools I am working on now

All projects

Attestix: attestation infrastructure for AI agents, 47 MCP tools, 9 modules, W3C VC data model

Agent identity

Active

Attestix

Open-source (Apache-2.0) core for AI agent identity, verifiable credentials, delegation chains and hash-chained audit evidence. 47 MCP tools and verifiers in Python, JS, Go, Rust, Java and R, producing compliance evidence for EU AI Act requirements.

PyPI downloads (all time, pepy.tech, Sep 2026): 12,000+
MCP tools: 47
Tests passing (v0.4.1): 585

Unreliability or Disagreement?

What an interpercentile decomposition of multi-turn evaluation results can and cannot show. Accepted as a poster (non-archival) at the NeurIPS 2026 Trust-AI-Eval workshop.

PythonEvaluation

synth-attest

Open, vendor-neutral verifiable-identity and tamper-evident audit layer for biosecurity, sitting on top of DNA-synthesis sequence screening. Personal project, Apache-2.0.

PythonLaTeXAWS+1

Identity Control Arena

ControlArena setting for identity-delegation attacks, built at the AI Control hackathon in Mar 2026.

PythonClaude APIControlArena

EM mask-vs-erase viewer

Interactive viewer that lets readers audit reported emergent-misalignment rates. Click any reported rate to read the generations behind it, with each judge's vote.

HTML

VibeMCP

Token-optimized unified MCP server for Gmail and Microsoft 365. One server, two ecosystems, half the tokens. TOON format for efficient AI agent communication.

TypeScriptMCPGmail API+3

inspect_evals contributions

Upstream fixes to the open evaluation suite used by the UK AI Security Institute. A seeded answer-choice shuffle so every GPQA build is the same exam, and an IFEval install fix.

PythonInspect AI

Where I have been working

Full timeline

Jul 2026 - Oct 2026
AI Safety Researcher, Summer 2026 cohort
LASR Labs
Funded place in the 13-week full-time LASR Labs research programme, supervised by Satvik Golechha (UK AI Security Institute).
Jun 2026 - Jul 2026
Participant, alignment-theory intensive
Iliad
Iliad Research Intensive (Iliad x PIBBSS), 8 Jun to 3 Jul 2026; attended all 20 teaching days.
Oct 2025 - Jan 2026
Study Participant (independent contractor)
METR
Study participant in a 60-participant randomised controlled trial on AI coding tools, invited because of my open-source work.
Jul 2025 - Oct 2025
Senior Software Engineer
Insight Labs AI
Full-time role owning the AI agent layer of a trading platform.

Writing

Notes from building

All posts

Every Time I Refreshed, My App Forgot Everything. Svelte 5 Runes Fixed It.

Tutorial27 Dec 202512 min

Svelte 5 localStorage

State vanishes on refresh. Users lose their preferences, their history, their progress. I learned how to make Svelte 5 apps remember with localStorage and runes.

Svelte 5TypeScript