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10 Scale AI research scientists
These ten current and former Scale AI research scientists hold or held research scientist titles at the company. A reader can learn what research scientist work at Scale AI involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Afra Feyza Akyürek
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Scale AI
Research Scientist at Scale AI in San Francisco since 2025, according to their profile. Afra Feyza Akyürek held research intern roles at Ai2 (2022) and in machine learning research at Apple (2021), and was a graduate teaching assistant at Carnegie Mellon University (2018–2019).
Anas Mahmoud
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist | Post-training · Scale AI
Research Scientist, Post-training at Scale AI since 2025, according to their profile. Anas Mahmoud was Senior Applied Research Scientist at Mila (2024–2025), held research scientist roles at Meta in 2023 and 2024, and was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto (2020–2025).
Anurag Pratik
LinkedInExperience: Staff Research Scientist · Scale AI
Staff Research Scientist at Scale AI in New York City since 2026, a role their profile lists in the research department. Anurag Pratik was Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon (2022–2026), Research Engineer at Meta (2018–2022) and Software Engineer at Microsoft (2014–2018).
Eyon Jang
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Scale AI
Research Scientist at Scale AI since 2026, a role a highlight describes as AI safety and alignment research on the Preparedness & Policy team. Eyon Jang is also listed as Research Fellow at MATS Research since 2025 and was Quantitative Researcher at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (2021–2025).
Mike Lee
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Scale AI
Research Scientist at Scale AI since 2025, a role a highlight ties to evaluations and human oversight of AI. Mike Lee was Postdoctoral Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in 2024 and held a PhD role there titled Improving the Transparency of Agent Decision Making to Humans Using Demonstrations (2018–2024).
Robert Vacareanu
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Scale AI
Research Scientist at Scale AI in San Francisco since 2024, according to their profile. Robert Vacareanu was a research assistant at the University of Arizona (2020–2024) and held applied scientist roles at Amazon Web Services in 2022 and 2023, according to their profile.
Soham Dan
LinkedInExperience: Machine Learning Research Scientist · Scale AI
Machine Learning Research Scientist at Scale AI in New York since 2026, according to their profile. Soham Dan was Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft (2024–2026), a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania (2017–2022) and a research intern at RIKEN in 2019.
Tyler Vuong
LinkedInExperience: Former Machine Learning Research Scientist · Scale AI
Machine Learning Research Scientist at Scale AI (2025–2026), a role a highlight ties to speech and audio LLM data and evals, including the Audio MultiChallenge leaderboard. Tyler Vuong was Senior Research Scientist at Meta (2023–2025) and Applied Scientist II at Amazon Web Services (2022–2023).
Udari Madhushani Sehwag
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist, SEAL · Scale AI
Research Scientist, SEAL at Scale AI since 2025; their summary says they lead the Preparedness and Policy research team at Scale AI. Udari Madhushani Sehwag was AI Research Scientist and Technical Team Lead at J.P. Morgan (2023–2025) and holds a PhD from Princeton University.
Vipul Gupta
LinkedInExperience: Former Research Scientist · Scale AI
Research Scientist at Scale AI (2025–2026), a role a highlight describes as research on agent failure modes and evaluation rubrics on the evaluation team, plus post-training and synthetic dataset generation for frontier labs. Vipul Gupta has been Co-Founder of a stealth company since 2026.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's research area to your question, since post-training, evaluation design, safety and preparedness, and speech data research are different kinds of work. Check whether they are still at Scale AI, since former staff can compare the work with what they do now.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does research at a company that builds training data and evaluations differ from research at a model lab?
- 02What makes an evaluation or benchmark trustworthy enough for frontier labs to rely on?
- 03How do research scientists turn findings about model failures into better data or training methods?
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