Aden Power
Canberra, Australia
adenpower.work@gmail.com
0426051560
Experience
2026 - Present
Remote
Research Fellow
Supervised Program for Alignment Research
- Studying calibrated eval awareness under the mentorship of Samuel Brown
2026 - present
Sydney
Research Fellow
Sydney AI Safety Fellowship
- Studying no-CoT math under the mentorship of Daniel Phillips
2024 - Present
Trellis Data, Canberra, Australia
Junior Research Engineer
ML Research Labs (A Trellis Data Company)
- Designed and implemented research experiments on model training, particularly for LLMs and related architectures using RLVR across various tasks and environments and performed distributed training on local and cloud GPU clusters.
- Built and implemented training pipelines for large generative, ASR and translation models
- Lead on Low-Resource Language Learning project, led two intern teams to build original agentic translation methods I designed.
- Quantitative trading using natural language processing to incorporate alternative data.
2024 - present
Australia
Cofounder
Devlock
- Web development, software development and applied AI for local business.
2018 - 2025
Canberra
Mathematics and Chess Teaching
Private, ACTJCL, Tutoring for Excellence, Marist College Canberra
- Extensive experience teaching students aged 5-19 across multiple disciplines, in both one-on-one and group formats.
Education
Illiad Intensive
Illiad x PBBSS
Bachelor of Philosophy (Honours) - Science
Australian National University
- First class honours thesis in mathematics: 'Piecewise-flat Manifolds and their Ricci Flow'.
- 6.97/7.00 GPA
National Mathematics Summer School
Australian National University
- One of 72 students in Australia invited in the main cohort. One of 12 students reinvited in the experienced cohort.
ANU Extension in Specialist Mathematics
Australian National University
- Completed extension course during years 11 and 12.
- High distinction average
Year 12 Certificate
Australian National University
- Dux of the College, first in class in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Religious Studies
- 99.80 ATAR (top 0.2% university admission rank)
Mathematical Writing
Piecewise-flat Manifolds and their Ricci Flow
honours thesis supervised by Professor Ben Andrews
The Fisher Metric for Information Geometry
submitted for class: "Information Geometry"
Cech Cohomology for Complex Manifolds, the Dolbeault Theorem and the del-bar Operator
submitted for class: "Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology"
Elimination in Algebraic Geometry, Equations and Quantifiers
submitted for class: "Algebraic Geometry 2: Schemes"
Foundational Results on the Fusion Systems on Finite Groups
submitted for class: "Group Theory 3: Finite Group Theory"
The First-Order Study of Families of Schemes
submitted for class: "Algebraic Geometry 3: Stacks and Moduli"
How to Spot a Norm-Euclidean Number Field
submitted for class: "Algebraic Number Theory"
A Bridge to Topology: the Category of Simplicial Sets
submitted for class: "Category Theory"
Publications
Narrow Capabilites Could be Used for Perfect INformation Steganography
Apart Control Hackathon
It was created for the apart control hackathon.
Skills
ML stack
- ML stack including PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, CUDA, etc
Web dev stack
- Web dev stack including ReactJS
Research skills
- Research skills including theoretical (mathematical literature) and practical (designing and building AI/ML experiments)
Awards
Australian Defence Force Future Innovators Award, 2020
The Scholastic Excellence Mathematics Medallion, 2021
Simon Marais Mathematics Competition Honour Roll, 2024, 2025
Australian Institute of Physics Award for Excellence, 2021
Academic Full Colours, 2021