Thomas Woodside
Co-Founder & Senior Policy Advisor at Secure AI Project
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Woodside is an AI policy expert and former machine learning researcher with a decade of experience translating technical risk into practical law and governance. As co-founder and Senior Policy Advisor at Secure AI Project he helped craft and implement the nation’s first state laws requiring transparency from developers of high-risk advanced AI systems, and has advised legislators on bills across multiple states. He combines hands-on ML research—from experiments at CHAI and CAIS to work on model trojan attacks—with legislative drafting and grantmaking, enabling him to bridge technical nuance and policy pragmatism. Based in Washington, D.C., he focuses on adapting legal frameworks to fast-moving AI capabilities while avoiding regulations that unduly stifle innovation, and he has a track record of building programs (like an international ML safety scholars course) that scale technical-policy capacity.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Security Studies, Master of Arts - MA, Security Studies at Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign ServiceBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Yale University
Github Skills (30)
data-science7
pytorch7
machine-learning7
deep-learning7
backend7
python7
mlmodel6
tensorflow6
typescript6
webgl6
javascript6
jax5
gpu-acceleration5
neural-network5
azerothcore5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
VjunetXuuftofi/beetss
Dec 2021 - Dec 2025
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
VjunetXuuftofi/PID_Control_Project
May 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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