Douw Marx's CV
- Phone: +32 470 51 64 51
- Email: douwmarx@gmail.com
- Location: Leuven, BE
- GitHub: DouwMarx
- LinkedIn: douw-marx-913503163
- Google Scholar: wSgyJ74AAAAJ
Summary
AI safety researcher working on agentic evaluations, risk estimation, and alignment. Contributing to the European Commission Technical Assistance for AI Safety, Redwood Research, and METR via Equistamp. Recently completed a PhD at KU Leuven, Belgium, applying machine learning and signal processing to fault detection in rotating machines.
Education
University of Pretoria, Honours and Master's in Mechanical Engineering
M.Eng.
Jan 2019 – Dec 2020
KU Leuven, Fault detection in rotating machinery
PhD
Sept 2019 – Oct 2025
Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD fellow at KU Leuven.
Experience
Equistamp, Research Engineer
Leuven, Belgium
Aug 2025 – present
10 months
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Contributing to EU AI Office evaluations on CBRN, loss of control, and harmful manipulation
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Contributing to Redwood Research's LinuxArena, a control setting for highly privileged AI agents
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Contributor to Redwood Research's ASMR-Bench, a benchmark for detecting AI sabotage in ML research
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Baselining for Andon Labs, Redwood Research, and METR
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Evaluation selection for risk modelling and value of information
KU Leuven, Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD Fellow
Leuven, Belgium
Sept 2021 – Sept 2025
4 years 1 month
Research on fault detection of rotating machines using unsupervised learning and differentiable signal processing methods.
Wolfram MathCore, SystemModeler Intern
Linköping, Sweden
May 2021 – July 2021
3 months
Develop Virtual labs using Wolfram System Modeler and Mathematica.
XRAM Technologies, Data Analyst and Mechanical Engineer
South Africa
Jan 2021 – Sept 2021
9 months
Build data-driven measurement models for electrode length prediction in electric-arc furnaces.
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Furnace electrode length prediction
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Chemical process data analysis
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Bayesian structural models and Gaussian process regression
Wolfram Summer School, Participant
USA
June 2020 – July 2020
1 month
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Cellular Automata
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Inverse Kinematics
Publications
Talk: Does your LLM care about the same things you do? — 75th Data Science Leuven Meetup
Feb 2026
www.meetup.com/data-science-leuven/events/311853177
Constitutional Sensitivities of Preference Models
Jan 2025
douwmarx.github.io/constitutional_sensitivities_of_preference_models
Patent for a novel parallel kinematic planar mechanism: WO2020208551A1
Feb 2022
Scientific articles
Jan 2025
scholar.google.com/citations?user=wSgyJ74AAAAJ&hl=en
Certificates
AI Alignment Course: Bluedot technical alignment course with project: Constitutional sensitivities of preference models.