Jess Bergs

I’m an engineering lead at the UK AI Security Institute for our human-in-the-loop research tools, enabling our scientists to run their empirical research experiments at scale.

My career so far has been in R&D and public sector innovation, from EU Horizon projects to Explainable AI at BBC R&D and since 2024 technical AI safety in the British government

What we’re looking for in a Mentee

Excellent communicator

Agentic, with a Getting-Stuff-Done attitude

Experience with empirical research

What we’re like as Mentors

Jess & Preeti: As a mentor, I’ll mainly provide high-level guidance but am also happy to jump in on hands-on engineering questions & pair programming to get things unblocked.

Past fellows valued clear and strategic guidance on project scoping and research direction, and detailed feedback on experiment design and technical setups.

We’ll have weekly group sessions but will also be available for 1:1s to talk through anything you might want feedback on

Testimonials from past mentees - https://www.linkedin.com/in/preeti-ravindra/details/recommendations/

Past projects from mentors - https://sparai.org/projects/f26/recyQRpX2HbOZfHYp/, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.14570, https://prism-research.org/projects