Sean Peters

Founder

Software engineer and team lead for 12 years across research domains. Microkernels at Data61, radio astronomy at ICRAR, cancer proteomics at CMRI, cultivated meat at Vow. Published in operating systems, astronomy, and proteomics before founding Lyptus Research in 2025 for technical AI safety research.

Jack Payne

Technical staff

Graduated 2025. Worked as an ML engineer while completing AI safety fellowships through TARA, SPAR, and Oxford ARBOx. With Lyptus, focused on measuring offensive cyber capabilities of frontier models. Co-organises the Sydney AI Safety Fellowship.

Slava Chalnev

Technical staff

Former ML engineer, MATS alumni, independent mechanistic interpretability researcher, and former startup founder. Published on activation steering with sparse autoencoders and early work on transcoders.

Sean Peters

Founder at Lyptus Research

Justin Olive

Head of AI Safety at Arcadia Impact

Hunter Jay

AI Risk Specialist at Australian AISI