ez·ra new·man
(noun)
/ˈezrə ˈnuːmən/
- An explorer, programmer, and human, esp. in the Boston area.
- (of an employee) The next person you should hire.
“Have you seen Ezra’s resume?”
ré·su·mé
(noun)
/ˈrezəˌmā/ (PDF)
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education
Boston University—BA in Computer Science • BA in Philosophy
September 2021 - May 2025
GPA: 3.96
Relevant CS Coursework: Artificial General Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Compiler Implementation and Design, Formal Methods, Streaming Systems, Distributed Systems, Discrete Math, Engineering Analysis and Design.
Relevant Philosophy Coursework: Philosophy of Value, 20th Century Ethical Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Ancient Ethical Philosophy, Phenomenology, Kant.
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education
BlueDot—Technical AI Safety • AGI Strategy
January 2026 - Present
Topics included safety techniques, threat modeling, open technical problems, governance strategy, policy interventions, kill chain analysis, and defense-in-depth.
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prizes
AI Math Olympiad Progress Prize—Bronze Medalist
Developed a novel resource-allocation strategy for LLM inference, training a difficulty-prediction classifier to optimize compute usage across a dataset of mathematical problems.
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prizes
Phi Beta Kappa
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prizes
Dean’s List, Boston University
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experience
SPAR—Research Fellow
February 2025 - Present
Working with Daniel Tan on recontextualization; and with Santi Aranguri to develop evaluation techniques and mitigations for reward hacking in LLMs.
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experience
American Civics Exchange—Software Engineer
June 2025 - January 2025
Developed full stack software for early stage prediction market startup utilizing both AI agents and hands on programming. Took broad independent responsibility while collaborating with a fast-paced team to develop business critical features.
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experience
Boston University—Research Assistant for the Complex Analytics & Scalable Processing Lab; Teaching Assistant
January 2024 - September 2024
Developed complex, performance critical from-scratch stream processing system to support novel research experiments in Go. Teaching assistant for Distributed Systems.
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experience
Data For Progress—Fullstack Software Engineer
May 2022 - January 2024
Built robust Python LLM pipelines to automate survey generation. Designed validation framework and benchmarks to prevent hallucinations in public-facing datasets. Built systems that automated 650 hours per year of researcher time.
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experience
Sharp Square Capital—Project Manager and Fullstack Engineer
December 2020 - February 2022
Developed multiple interactive data visualization and manipulation dashboards. Optimized product to run interactively at scale, achieving 400x speedup.
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skills
Fluent communicator skilled at explaining complex technical and philosophical concepts
Experienced in deploying LLMs as autonomous agents both for decision-making and workflow automation
Fluent in Python, Go, Java, and Kotlin development
Practiced in writing performance-critical systems to run at scale
Proficient with AWS and GCP
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activities
Constitution/Model Spec reading group organizer, Philosophy Politics and Economics Society Executive Board, Woodworking, Skiing, Cooking, Travel
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get to know me
Gets Me Up In The Morning
Making new things, seeing the world, and the rush from solving a hard problem.