Summary
Jason Hoelscher-obermaier is Director of Research at Apart Research, where he runs Apart Lab and organizes global hybrid research hackathons (Apart Sprints) to build AI safety talent and produce practical research. He brings nine years of AI research engineering and startup experience together with a PhD in experimental quantum physics and training in philosophy, applying lab-grade rigor to safety evaluations, interpretability, and alignment of large language models. His work spans production NLP systems—knowledge graphs, embeddings, scientific text extraction, summarization—and ML evaluation projects including work for ARC, giving him a rare bridge between product engineering and foundational safety research. Beyond tech, he’s built cryogenic quantum optics experiments and has sung in and helped manage a classical choir for over a decade, underscoring a blend of hands-on technical depth and long-term community leadership.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
With distinction, With distinction at University of Oxford
English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin